Nanodandruff and synthetic spectroscopy
The story of two data fabricators and Elsevier regulars, Sudheer Khan and Ali Fakhri. Smut Clyde brings them together in this new guest post about nanotechnology
Tag: Elsevier
Attack of the Photoclones: Sharma-Madhuri Prequel
Smut Clyde is a natural force I insidiously chose to harvest and unleash upon the worst cheaters of the researchContinue Reading
How Emilie Marcus and Cell covered up misconduct at Weizmann
I previously reported about numerous cases of suspected (or even blatantly obvious) data manipulation at the Weizmann Institute of ScienceContinue Reading
How Elsevier finds its peer reviewers
The following email exchange took place between the academic Editor-in-Chief of an Elsevier subscription journal and a professor of physics and astronomy, who was invited to peer review a clinical trial study on gestational diabetes, his expertise assumed from some obscure “keywords”.
How scam artist Ashutosh Tiwari played Linköping University
The Linköping University (LiU) in Sweden is quite busy these days with the affair around their fake professor Ashutosh Tiwari,Continue Reading
Christmas messages from Professor Turner, his ex-protégé under investigation Tiwari, and Elsevier
My earlier article about the fake Linköping University professor Ashutosh Tiwari and his scam of predatory conferences and journals, madeContinue Reading
The rise and fall of an antivax paper, by Smut Clyde
For the publisher Elsevier, antivax papers are apparently only a problem when they are too heavily manipulated. It took theirContinue 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
The 3rd editor and failure of ‘proper channels’
A scientist finds serious measurement errors in three publications of his former collaborators. He alerts the journals and makes hisContinue Reading
