Decline and Fall
“Gather round the campfire, everyone, while Uncle Smut regales you with another blood-chilling, spine-curdling tale… this time, about psychologists not sciencing properly.” – Smut Clyde
Tag: irreproducibility
Superconductive Witch Hunt
“J. Hirsch. […] engaged in unscrupulous practices, including falsifying analyses and selectively presenting data to support unfounded claims. […] Hirsch’s tactics include manipulation of public opinion, personal attacks on our team members, and threats and complaints to our management and funding agencies.” – Mikhail Eremets, the single most highly regarded high pressure experimentalist today.
Superconductive Fraud: The Sequel
“After the huge box-office success of “Nature 2020: Room-temperature superconductivity in CSH” this March our Nature studios released a sequel with the same star-studded cast: “Nature 2023: Near-ambient superconductivity in N-doped LuHx”. – Maarten van Kampen
See a therapist and get serious help
“I am highly admired by my colleagues for the high level of rigor and reproducibility I continue to apply to research. ” Dr David Danielpour
Lack of transparency in ERC funding decisions, by Shravan Vasishth
Academic research is dependent on funding, and funding agencies, both public and charity ones, play a crucial gatekeeper function inContinue Reading
Post-publication peer review of a multimillion-dollar-heavy Nature paper
Is GPC1 from serum exosomes a marker to diagnose pancreatic cancer?
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
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
Bruno Lemaitre on Science and Narcissism
Bruno Lemaitre is professor at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, where he works on insect immunity.Continue Reading
Do nanoparticles deliver? Merck’s Smart Flares and other controversies
Two somewhat controversial approaches to nanoparticle delivery: the striped nanoparticles by Francesco Stellacci, and the spherical nucleic acids by Chad Mirkin.
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