Cassava fraud and Alzheimer’s capitalism
“even Theranos didn’t submit fake data to FDA”
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
“even Theranos didn’t submit fake data to FDA”
Schneider Shorts 19.11.2021 – Alina Chan’s book is out, Irish Moss as COVID-19 crusher, long covid all in your head, Cassava affair exposes idiocy of stock market capitalism, featuring a short-fused bully editor and his antivax successor, Wiley defending upmarket research fraud, Cheshire taking on the Indian Ministry of Defence, with Frontiers in insectofascism, mental deficiencies of vegans, radioactive showers, and my best wishes to Spiderman in his alternative career as fantasy writer.
Is the journal Cell Death and Disease a disease itself, parasitised by Chinese paper mills? Can it be cured? Not with this team of doctors on editorial board.
If you follow Cheshire on Twitter, you surely heard him referencing a certain “Dr who?”. The following guest post exposes a very toxic fraudster and covidiot.
“you can make a mistake once, but twice hmmmm I’d like to have my name removed from the potential revised version of this manuscript”, – Prof Guillemin.
Together with “Paul Jones” I celebrate here a great Hindu nationalist: Govardhan Das. The immunology professor previously cured tuberculosis with Photoshop, and now he cured COVID-19 with BCG vaccine. All while exposing alleged research fraudsters who dare to criticise the sacred and perfect Modi government!
“Recently we realized that some images were used wrongly in the paper, so I want to retract this article.
The key message of the paper is very solid and results have been reproduced independently in many laboratories, but I find unacceptable the wrong use of some images during figure preparation” – Pedro L Rodriguez
A microbiology institute in Sofia is investigating a string of problematic papers on arthritis. Lead author Nina Ivanovska: “I consider myself the major culprit”. She might be right.
“I have a passion to solve a problem that is facing millions. I could have a job that makes more money, has normal hours, but this is where I should be right now.” Dr Leen Kawas, CEO of Althira Pharma
They are professors of molecular biology and they don’t know how microscopy or western blots are supposed to work. But it passed peer review!