Macchiarini investigations outcome: Karolinska University Hospital
Investigations into lethal patient abuse by the thorax surgeon and regenerative medicine “pioneer” Paolo Macchiarini are now concluded in Stockholm.Continue Reading
Tag: Medicine
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
Growing hearts in Hannover: a job opening
The Medical University of Hannover (MHH) in the German Lower Saxony is searching to recruit a professor who can grow humanContinue Reading
Frontiers reviewer told: don’t be strict, endorse paper, reports Giulia Liberati
Journal peer review is a mysterious black box all scientists fear. The task of the reviewers is to help authorsContinue 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 infectious self-plagiarism of radiologist Hedvig Hricak
In medicine, academic performance is evaluated quantitatively, by the sheer number of papers. Promotions are granted according to the publicationContinue Reading
Berlin clinic head Joussen investigated by DFG, while 3 universities ignore FOI requests
Antonia Joussen, head of ophthalmology clinic at the Berlin university hospital Charité, had to correct several of her publications dueContinue 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
Self-Plagiarism: helps careers, hurts noone?
Times Higher Education recently reported about an online survey on research integrity of British scientists. The study was performed andContinue 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
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