Phil Baker’s llamas will provide you with eggs
The more improprieties Philip Baker committed, the more appealing he became to universities across the world.
Tag: data manipulation
Karma Police, Arrest This Man
“This is what you get
When you mess with us” –
University of Ulm to L. Schneider
If only Diana Spiegelberg had AI-based tools…
“research misconduct can occur at any stage of the research process and that there is no requirement for the results or the findings of the research to have been affected. Furthermore, the incorrect images constitute precisely those research results which the authors themselves considered important enough to be presented in scientific articles.” – NPOF
A Bingdi lotus is in bloom
“Mr. Efferth firmly rejects the suspicion raised against him of involvement in paper mill activities and in the publication of automatically generated publications.” – University of Mainz
Work hard and play hard like Marcelo Kazanietz
“Mariana will tell your wife things that she does not want to hear. Believe when I tell you that it is not a good idea to play games with Mariana. […] you will have to pay the consequences for your stupid decisions” – Professor Kazanietz, to a lab member
Do bacteria grow old as we do?
“Once again I am left wondering what to make of these research teams that cheerfully go on generating impossible results, either they don’t write the methods truthfully or they don’t write the results truthfully and neither one is better than the other.” – Sholto David
Rui the Drunk
“we are talking about a dictator that systematically harassed students and other young researchers, created inhumane work conditions, forced them into scientific misconduct, systematically committed financial fraud with research money, and threatened and intimidated anyone that did not play by his rules.” – comment about Portugal’s most cited researcher
The Misadventures of Luca and Bart
“this is all very time consuming and damaging. It starts to look like a witch hunt.”” – Bart De Strooper
Mind over Antibody
“I considered whether I should email Abcam and ask them to change the name of the ab51243 antibody on their website to reduce confusion, but […] I will instead continue to watch the carnage, perhaps it has only just started!” – Sholto David
The Kingdom of Rui Reis
“I think this story shows the debacle and corruption of entire research fields that become just a very expensive show of bad science-fiction. ” – Carabus Maleki
