How to earn $$$ with Wikipedia & CC-BY
The photographer Arne Müseler wanted me to pay him almost €6k for embedding his CC-BY Wikipedia picture of Chernobyl reactor. He failed.
Tag: Germany
Svante Pääbo: Nobel Disease before Nobel Prize
Svante Pääbo, the father of paleogenomics, went funny before his Nobel Prize.
The Indefatigable Ashutosh Tiwari
Four years after Ashutosh Tiwari’s scamferences and research fraud were exposed, his impressive-sounding yet fictional “International Association of Advanced Materials”, or IAAM, still opens doors, hearts and wallets.
Bad Choices in Dresden III
Lorenza Colzato was a rising star of psychology and a role model for Women in STEM. All Dutch media and even some local German newspapers talk about her now. But I want to talk about her husband Bernhard Hommel instead.
Heike Walles guilty of research misconduct
Former star of German regenerative medicine Heike Walles gets slapped with research misconduct and a retraction by her former employer, the University of Würzburg. She and her husband, the Macchiarini-trained surgeon Thorsten Walles, left Würzburg years ago for Magdeburg where nobody minds.
Schneider Shorts 8.04.2022 – Flying Claptrap
Schneider Shorts of 8.04.2022 – antler baths and crazy inventions for diseased Führer Putin, Russia’s’ academic self-boycott, with a Fauci advisor on a race to the bottom, an ex-MIT sexual harasser, how Nature Comms helped a German cheater sue the DFG, and why toxoplasma infection is good for you.
Anatomy of a Retraction
From “analysis and conclusion of our paper remain valid” via drafted correction to “the authors retract this publication”. A guest post by Maarten van Kampen.
Get your hard-on with Prof Dr Dr Dr Stehling’s liposuction
“Prof. Dr. Dr. Dr. M. K. Stehling, the founder of ANOVA IRM and the Vitus Prostate Center , is a radiologist (MD) and holds a PhD in physics. […] ANOVA IRM GmbH, located in Offenbach, near Frankfurt am Main, Germany, is an officially controlled German medical company. We have permits to harvest, process and manufacture stem cell products”
Bert Vogelstein and Heiko Hermeking mull lawsuits
Bad luck in cancer research?
Bad Choices in Dresden II
“I cannot help but wonder to what extent you will systematically scrutinize all publications from my group.” – Prof Dr Marino Zerial
For Better Science 