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Tag: Germany
Professor Grune’s diet of dodgy blots
As German TV asks Tilman Grune what he will eat in the future, I have other questions for him.
Luck in Sight
“It seems hard to accept any explanation that doesn’t somehow incriminate most of the people involved” – Sholto David
The Heidelberg whistleblower
“Given Jost Jonas’ high productivity and his German origin, could it be that he somehow profits from helping Asian institutions with boosting their publication metrics?” – Aneurus Inconstans
I Lost My Pancreas in Heidelberg
“While papermills certainly pollute the literature the most in terms of numbers, I believe the spotlight should equally be on questionable research groups at top institutions, whose articles might have an even larger negative impact on society” – Aneurus Incostans
Bad Choices in Dresden IV
A guide on what qualities universities in Germany, Italy and elsewhere in Europe expect from their foreign PhD students and postdocs.
Tannapfel, a German success story
The papers are old, raw data unavailable, one can see small differences, some students probably did it, and anyway, conclusions are unaffected.
Trials and Errors of Martin Gleave
“The magnitude was much greater than we had expected or hoped for,” – Martin Gleave
Schneider Shorts 21.02.2025 – I reviewed the facts and could not find any scientific misconduct
Schneider Shorts 21.02.2025 – Germany special with my plea to German voters, a russia-lover in Hamburg, an animal friend in Magdeburg, a decisive art historian in Cottbus, and an Iran-loving German in Poland, plus other stories of a Californian urologist, a papermill gang, and mass retractions in Elsevier to save one greedy Spanish man.
The elusive Margot Zöller
Celebrating the German cancer research maverick Margot Zöller of Heidelberg.
For Better Science 