The mysterious public career execution of Robert Ryan
On August 24th I received an anonymous email over my website from a „Concerned Microbiologist”: “I would like to bringContinue Reading
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How UCL throat surgeon Martin Birchall misleads patients and tricks public funders
This is a new instalment of my investigation into UK and EU funded clinical trials on trachea replacement by theContinue Reading
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
Regenerating in Hannover, Part 2: Axel Haverich’s “growing” heart valves
The science of the fallen star of regenerative medicine Paulo Macchiarini was simple: take a dead organ, strip it ofContinue Reading
The laborious delivery of Markram’s brainchild
The European multimillion research project Human Brain Project is under fresh leadership, its visionary founder Henry Markram ousted from power.Continue Reading
Wellcoming the samizdat publishing revolution
The British research funder Wellcome Trust (now just Wellcome) is about to launch its own journal, where the funding recipients and theirContinue 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
Brexiting out of EU research and patient rights
Britain voted itself out of the European Union, and with this act UK research will soon be also out ofContinue Reading
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
Regenerating in Hannover, Part 1: how Macchiarini got ideas
The trachea surgeon and formerly world-renowned stem cell pioneer Paolo Macchiarini, whose human experimenting left most of his trachea-transplant patientsContinue Reading
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