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.
Tag: data manipulation
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
The Miracle-Polymer-Dumbsterfire
“Read the damn paper and look at the figures before publishing it; it’s not that hard” – Archasia belfragei
Concerns for whites, retractions for the rest?
“Expressions of Concern may be used as an interim notice to flag a potential issue that may be ultimately resolved with another amendment outcome (e.g. retraction or correction) or they may remain as the final outcome in cases where conclusive evidence cannot be obtained. ” – COPE
“Doctored” by Charles Piller – book review
“If this book accomplishes anything, it should be to shatter the illusion that Alzheimer’s research is on solid footing and to prompt a long-overdue reckoning in the field. ” – Csaba Szabo
A stupid and foolish question
“Those noises have no scientific meanings, suggest nothing, forming no any judgments, and have no any influences on the experimental results. ” – Professor Deng‐Guang Yu
For Better Science 