The London Eye
How Robin Ali and other London ophthalmologists make blind mice and blind children see.
Tag: data manipulation
Stebbing and the Necromaniac Sisters
“If we can target necrosis, we could unlock entirely new ways to treat conditions ranging from kidney failure to cardiac disease, neurodegeneration, and even aging itself.” – Dr Carina Kern, a genius
How Vilhelm Bohr disappointed his Grandpa
Will Vilhelm win a Nobel Prize of his own? And for what?
I Lost My Pancreas in Heidelberg
“While papermills certainly pollute the literature the most in terms of numbers, I believe the spotlight should equally be on questionable research groups at top institutions, whose articles might have an even larger negative impact on society” – Aneurus Incostans
Good luck, Jolanda Spadavecchia!
CNRS research director Jolanda Spadavecchia was sanctioned with two years suspension for “serious and repeated breaches of her duty of scientific integrity”, 19 retractions were requested.
Tannapfel, a German success story
The papers are old, raw data unavailable, one can see small differences, some students probably did it, and anyway, conclusions are unaffected.
Yale Fayle
“An attractive new prospect: Install the Chinese paper mill directly at Yale University, where research oversight is presumably less stringent than at the PRC and NIH funds are more easily accessed to piss up the wall.” – Sholto David
FAIRS: Frustrating Attempts at Integrity Reform in Science
“yes, let’s clean up the literature, but I think it is immensely more important to catch the “big fish”” – Csaba Szabo
Obituaries for explosive developments in cancer research
“Michael Waterfield,a key figure in the explosive developments in cancer research in the late twentieth century [….] leaves an enormous legacy, not just in the landscape of cancer therapies which he did so much to transform, but also in the training and promotion of the careers of so many leading scientists”
Correction: IMPOSSIBLE
“What is the threshold to distinguish between minor and major? What does “the majority of the results and conclusions” mean? ” – Aneurus Inconstans
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