The travelling circus of research integrity in Strasbourg
On March 8, an international scientific review board will be evaluating the research at the French CNRS Institut de Biologie MoléculaireContinue Reading
Tag: data manipulation
Ryan’s mentor Dow whitewashed after abusing copyright to combat my reporting
Robert Ryan’s mentor Maxwell Dow used the legal means of DMCA take-down to attack my reporting, pretending to act on behalf of his University College Cork. UCC remained silent and refused to apologise. Dow was later absolved of all suspicions of research misconduct.
The western blot doctors of Silesia
Three whistleblowers reported the Polish medicine professor Bozena Gabryel and colleagues for data manipulation. Will the universities do anything now?
Macchiarini, Jungebluth guilty of research fraud, KI demands retraction of Nature Communications paper
The scandal surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, now professor at Federal University of Kazan in Russia, is preparing to experiment on monkeys usingContinue Reading
Two EMBO corrections for the martyred saint Maria Pia Cosma
The martyrdom of St Maria Pia.
Kathrin Maedler loses Heisenberg Professorship, Diabetes award, found guilty of misconduct by DFG
“As a suitable and appropriate measure in accordance with the DFG procedural regulations, the Examination Board proposed to the main committee the withdrawal of the Heisenberg Professorship for Mädler, which was approved in 2014.”
Kathrin Maedler: persecuted genius or zombie scientist?
The prize-winning German pharmacologist and diabetes researcher Kathrin Maedler is regularly in the German and international news, either as aContinue Reading
The Voinnet investigator and the tricky issue of conflict of interests
Great scientists never have any conflicts of interests, and in the case of the investigation of the research misconduct byContinue Reading
Unveiling the mystery of fallen microbiologist Robert Ryan
The young star of microbiology Robert Ryan, rose to great heights only to be publicly shot down, without much of anContinue Reading
Mass investigation of 9 senior scientists at Karolinska Institutet
The scandal-shaken Swedish Karolinska Institutet (KI) invited nine of their research group leaders and professors to explain themselves about dataContinue Reading
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