What Elsa Flores and Tyler Jacks taught each other
“PCR reactions run on agarose gels commonly look similar due to artifacts introduced by the agarose gel and comb.” Dr Elsa R Flores, Associate Director, Moffitt Cancer Center
Tag: data manipulation
Toppling Giants in Stanford
Everyone is talking about Stanford’s President Marc Tessier-Lavigne now. OK, let’s talk about him, and how Stanford deals with research fraud. And then let’s talk about Thomas Rando.
Never have heroes like Robert Roeder
The Schneider Rule says that if you follow one bad scientist, you will meet many other research cheaters among their mentees and collaborators.
“How can one artifically make this happen?”
“This phenomenon is called “fraud with Photoshop”, dear Dr Wei.” – Aneurus Inconstans
“I feel harassed and targeted”
“It was done for ‘esthetic’ reason ONLY.” – Prof Hagit Eldar-Finkelman
Torturing Small Animals
Animal abuse and bad science go hand in hand. Meet professors Ute Moll, Jordi Muntané, Sam W Lee and others.
The Strasbourg Swamp
You know Voinnet, but now meet other great life scientists of Strasbourg: Drouard, Loeffler, Boutillier, Mr and Mrs Egly, and many others.
C Ronald Kahn and The Problem of Irreproducible Bioscience Research
“not everyone in the research community accepts that the problem requires such attention; some believe it is overblown.” -Jeffrey Flier, emeritus dean of Harvard Medical School
ORI Fail
“Dr. Elgazzar is a brilliant researcher”
Temple of Stolen Pig Materials
“This is a fight between two distinguished academics and the University at which they have tenure over a Pig Model….”
For Better Science 