By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
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!
What led to retraction of the Sensei RNA paper by Arati Ramesh in Bangalore: the “factually inaccurate, anonymous, and unverified” version, which “quite frankly, can be termed slander”.
And a guest post by “Paul Jones” at the end!
“you can rest your concerns. As you can see, we have not manipulated any images.” – Dr Arati Ramesh
“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
Mad chloroquine guru Didier Raoult is becoming an embarrassment for France, who would’ve known.
“It feels like half the higher-echelon professors at Jilin University have built their careers on these fairy-tales, with successions of papers itemising the interactions of ADAM10 or GRIM-19. […] if only they had published instead about the Tooth-Fairy circ-RNA and how it targets the Easter-Bunny Pathway…”, – Smut Clyde
Chairman Cao’s 16 Retractions They Don’t Want You to Know About
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!
