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
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CNRS hits back at the stream of misconduct evidence
The French scientific society CNRS, a huge country-wide network of research institutes and one of the most influential science institutionsContinue Reading
Voinnet’s CNRS investigator Catherine Jessus with own data integrity issues
More suspected data manipulations in the papers by the French elite biologists. It was funny enough when the director andContinue Reading
Voinnet’s sidekick Dunoyer welcomed at Nature Plants, despite retractions and admitted misconduct
The Olivier Voinnet scandal of almost two decades-long research misconduct and data manipulations has reached its logical conclusion. The FrenchContinue Reading
Updated: 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.
The stinking fish of Strasbourg
A 2014 publication from the lab of Laurence Maréchal-Drouard, director of CNRS IBMP institute in Strasbourg, seems to contain evidence of inappropriate data manipulation. Other versions of this problematic figure appear in 2 PhD dissertations supervised by Drouard
Susana Rivas: a new research integrity scandal in French plant sciences
Susana Rivas, a CNRS research group leader from the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) in Toulouse is nowContinue Reading
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
Voinnet retraction brings entire school of thought crashing down
Another retraction hits the fallen star plant scientist Olivier Voinnet. This time it is a previously corrected paper in Science,Continue Reading
Is Guillaume Moissiard that Voinnet co-author now under investigation by CNRS and ETH?
The research misconduct scandal around the former star plant scientist, CNRS research director and currently ETH Zürich professor Oliver VoinnetContinue Reading
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