Maria Fousteri, the ERC-funded western blot cheater
“The Committee concludes that serious breaches of scientific integrity have been committed by Dr. Fousteri while employed at the Leiden University Medical Center.”
Tag: data manipulation
Does ERC help cheaters pay protection money?
Did you ever wonder why certain zombie scientists were still in academic jobs? Despite having been caught on data manipulationContinue Reading
The smelly compost heap of plant-based nanoparticles
A gang of Indian nanotechnology scientists, allegedly from Annamalai University in India, placed in 2014-2015 several papers in different journals,Continue Reading
With Voinnet and Cosma cover-up, Cell now admits to have no editorial integrity whatsoever
The elite journal Cell issued editorial notices in regard to 3 papers by the Swiss-based French plant scientist Olivier Voinnet (foundContinue Reading
Does Spanish Research recruit its Leaders from PubPeer?
One dishonest scientist sacked, another one is welcomed. At least this is what it looks like at the Spanish NationalContinue Reading
Berlin clinic head Joussen investigated by DFG, while 3 universities ignore FOI requests
Antonia Joussen, head of ophthalmology clinic at the Berlin university hospital Charité, had to correct several of her publications dueContinue Reading
Pontus Boström: cheater carousel in Sweden
Sweden is a tolerant country, which is a very good thing. Unfortunately, sometimes this Swedish tolerance seems ill-advised. Dishonest scientistsContinue Reading
Mario Saad and the return of the wandering western blot
“A clinical trial of fake news, by Mario Saad”
New tenured job for zombie scientist Susana Gonzalez
Susana González is a Spanish regenerative medicine scientist who promised to search for cures of heart ageing with the helpContinue Reading
Triplicated paper with multiplicated cells and images
There are papers which contain image duplications. There are papers which contain outrageous image duplications, which can only be explainedContinue Reading
For Better Science 