Anil Sood and other questionable stars of MD Anderson
The MD Anderson Cancer Center, part of the University of Texas and located in Houston, is a giant hub ofContinue Reading
Tag: data manipulation
Fishy peer review at Science, by citizen scientist Ted Held
Sweden and the international research community recently faced yet another research misconduct scandal. It was about a Science paper byContinue Reading
Data manipulation evidence in Helin Vakifahmetoglu papers “warrants no further consideration”
The Swedish Karolinska Institutet (KI) has investigated its own cell biologist and well-funded autophagy researcher Helin Vakifahmetoglu-Norberg, following my publishing ofContinue Reading
German Leibniz institute director Karl Lenhard Rudolph guilty of misconduct
A major misconduct finding hits German life sciences. Karl Lenhard Rudolph, stem cell and ageing researcher, director of the Fritz-Lippmann-Institute (FLI)Continue Reading
Journal announces to clean up past literature, gets “smeared” by Retraction Watch
On June 9th 2017, the research integrity news website Retraction Watch brought an article titled: „Journal won’t look at allegationsContinue Reading
Melo and Kalluri defend discredited Nature paper with preprint, where they admit data “adjustments”
Sonia Melo, the Portuguese cheater scientist and her former US-boss Raghu Kalluri issued some days ago a biorxive preprint, whichContinue Reading
Carlisle’s statistics bombshell names and shames rigged clinical trials
John Carlisle is a British anaesthesiologist, who works in a seaside Torbay Hospital near Exeter, at the English Channel. DespiteContinue Reading
Pfizer announces more retractions for sacked lab head Min-Jean Yin, whistleblower revealed
The pharma giant Pfizer announced to continue investigating the data manipulations committed by their former cancer researcher Min-Jean Yin, retractionsContinue Reading
CNRS lab of Voinnet’s right hand Patrice Dunoyer dissolved by director’s decree
The lab of Olivier Voinnet’s right hand man at IBMP Strasbourg has been dissolved. The news about the end of Patrice Dunoyer’s scientific career appeared on my site long before the information became official.
Retraction, and another looming misconduct finding for Macchiarini and Jungebluth
The misconduct-tainted paper on oesophagus transplants in rats (Sjöqvist et al 2014) by the fallen star of regenerative medicine Paolo Macchiarini isContinue Reading
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