Retraction, and another looming misconduct finding for Macchiarini and Jungebluth
The misconduct-tainted paper on oesophagus transplants in rats (Sjöqvist et al 2014) by the fallen star of regenerative medicine Paolo Macchiarini isContinue Reading
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Macchiarini, Jungebluth guilty of research fraud, KI demands retraction of Nature Communications paper
The scandal surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, now professor at Federal University of Kazan in Russia, is preparing to experiment on monkeys usingContinue Reading
Karolinska in denial, by Johan Thyberg
This is a guest post by Johan Thyberg, a 1947-born Swedish biologist and a well-known activist against science fraud. HisContinue Reading
Kathrin Maedler loses Heisenberg Professorship, Diabetes award, found guilty of misconduct by DFG
“As a suitable and appropriate measure in accordance with the DFG procedural regulations, the Examination Board proposed to the main committee the withdrawal of the Heisenberg Professorship for Mädler, which was approved in 2014.”
Kathrin Maedler: persecuted genius or zombie scientist?
The prize-winning German pharmacologist and diabetes researcher Kathrin Maedler is regularly in the German and international news, either as aContinue Reading
The Voinnet investigator and the tricky issue of conflict of interests
Great scientists never have any conflicts of interests, and in the case of the investigation of the research misconduct byContinue Reading
Unveiling the mystery of fallen microbiologist Robert Ryan
The young star of microbiology Robert Ryan, rose to great heights only to be publicly shot down, without much of anContinue Reading
Voinnet retraction brings entire school of thought crashing down
Another retraction hits the fallen star plant scientist Olivier Voinnet. This time it is a previously corrected paper in Science,Continue Reading
5 retractions and a sack for Pfizer lead cancer researcher Min-Jean Yin
Five months ago, I reported about data integrity concerns in 6 publications authored by Min-Jean Yin, who had been workingContinue Reading
The newly found innocence of Paolo Macchiarini
The tide is turning for the fallen star surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, who transplanted numerous patients with lethal tracheas made outContinue Reading
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