Chocolate is good for your funding
Chocolate is good for your health, scientists keep saying. This may sound counter-intuitive; given that chocolate is an extremely calorie-richContinue Reading
Tag: conflict of interest
Bruno Lemaitre on Science and Narcissism
Bruno Lemaitre is professor at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, where he works on insect immunity.Continue Reading
Frontiers’ Bread Madness
Frontiers published a paper titled: “Bread and Other Edible Agents of Mental Disease”. It is authored by two psychologists who declare that bread “can threaten our mental wellbeing”
Academic self-plagiarism: misconduct or a literary art form?
Plagiarism, the misappropriation of the (usually written) work of others in order to present it as one’s own, is universally regarding asContinue Reading
Voinnet aftermath: ethical bankruptcy of academic elites
Olivier Voinnet, the disgraced former star plant scientist and professor at ETH Zürich, is apparently on extended sick leave, hisContinue Reading
OA publishers Hindawi vs. Frontiers: similar, yet different
In this article, I will compare editorial policies of two for-profit open access (OA) publishers, Frontiers and Hindawi. Though bothContinue Reading
Sonia Melo case: PhD advisor Esteller sham-investigated, postdoc PI Kalluri with $ 80Mio COI
Sonia Melo, Portuguese cancer researcher and recipient of the prestigious EMBO Installation Grant, now has her publications investigated by EMBOContinue Reading
Frontiers Christmas Carol
The Swiss academic publisher Frontiers, owned by the EPFL professor Henry Markram and his wife Kamila (plus some investors, includingContinue Reading
Post-publication peer review: signed or anonymous?
The post-publication peer review (PPPR) has become a heated discussion topic. Precisely, the issue is not whether PPPR is necessary (the oppositionContinue Reading
Part 2: Trolling peer review to promote its ethics
In this follow-up to my previous article, I will describe two cases of how the editorial and peer review weaknesses at a FrontiersContinue Reading
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