Nature rewards data manipulation with a Mentoring Award
In Spain, there seems to be a tradition of reacting to emerging evidence of data manipulation with handing out prestigiousContinue Reading
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Karl Lenhard Rudolph barred from DFG funding for 2 years, as supportive peers flock to his conference
More bad news for Karl Lenhard Rudolph: misconduct findings and 2 year funding ban from DFG. Good news: the international scientific community stands to him in solidarity, no retractions, even some corrections won’t be implemented.
Predatory conferences and other scams of false Swedish professor Ashutosh Tiwari
Ashutosh Tiwari, former employee of Linköping University, built an entire industry of predatory publishing and conferences, which hosted many among the material science research elite, all from a small rented office in the industrial area of Linköping. Tiwari’s genius trick was to play at the vanity and greed of certain academics.
Sharma’s bad karma, or is anyone peer reviewing nanotechnology?
Nanotechnology is the way to cure cancer and to save humanity of all its problems in general. The photoshopping team around the physicist Prashant Sharma and Rashmi Madhuri rode this train, till PubPeer sleuth interfered.
How Irun Cohen and Weizmann Institute almost cured diabetes
This is a new episode of the data manipulation affair around Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel (and another guestContinue Reading
Anil Sood and how much MD Anderson doesn’t care: whistleblowers speak out
“The graduate school at University of Texas MD Anderson does not care and keep sending students to his lab, Sood is a member of faculty there. RIO at MDACC doesn’t care because witnesses either left the country or are too afraid to speak.”
Call to research integrity, or at least a minor revolution at CNRS
When I first started digging into the affair of data manipulations around the former star of plant sciences Olivier Voinnet in earlyContinue Reading
Yehiel Zick, Weizmann’s resident Western blot artist
The Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, is not just a renowned biomedical research centre of world calibre. ItContinue Reading
Oncogene EiC Justin Stebbing, a hypocrite of research integrity?
‘The results have been replicated by ourselves or others, so the image manipulation is irrelevant.’ – Justin Stebbing, double bluffing
DFG Senator Roland Lill explains how to do science properly
My earlier article about strange image irregularities in the publications of the German mitochondria researcher Roland Lill seem to haveContinue Reading
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