The Fraud Squad
Either a Muslim colleague or a retired technician did it. Or so these Sicilian professors insist.
Tag: Italy
How Sampaolesi and Cossu cured Muscular Dystrophy with stem cells
Gather round children, and hear a fairy tale from the golden age of degenerative medicine.
The Cigarette Mob of Palermo
On the gate of Constantinople was written, in a steel plate, the order of the Sultan:
“All the males of the Gjomarkaj, generation after generation, from the cradle to the grave, will carry the title of Kapidan”
Cell Death and Depravity
Is the journal Cell Death and Disease a disease itself, parasitised by Chinese paper mills? Can it be cured? Not with this team of doctors on editorial board.
Schneider Shorts 15.10.2021 – Russophobia!
Schneider Shorts 15.10.2021 – Claudio Hetz tries to close a chapter, fake blot artistry from Sicily and from America, a German society’s ombudsperson resigns, a paper which should be put out of its misery, Gerry Melino trolling again, more retractions for Fatih Sen, how Elsevier business model works, and can Lavrov please stop lying for a change?
AACR deploys Massimo Loda on a mission to cure cancer
Meet Massimo Loda, the new EiC of Molecular Cancer Research. Not despite, but because of his PubPeer record. Also meet his partner Michele Pagano!
The Miracle Yogurt of Viale Shakespeare
Dried yogurt from Italy prevents not just all gut issues, but also all brain diseases and even brain ageing. I will tell you where you can buy it now, before everyone else!
La Piovra Ferrarese di Giorgio Zauli
Giorgio Zauli’s rectorship term ends. Will research fraud, media harassment and whistleblower persecution be a thing of the past at the University of Ferrara? Ma dai, basta cazzate.
Pier Paolo Pandolfi shrouded in Turin!
Pier Paolo Pandolfi’s secret job in Italy found!
Stefano Mancuso’s Brilliant Green and Plant Revolution: review of two books
Here I review two more books by Stefano Mancuso, a somewhat unorthodox plant scientist from Florence
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