Science journalism by Leonid Schneider, on research integrity and academic publishing in life sciences and biomedicine
The hero of this new nano-malfeasance story by Smut Clyde is another Chinese Photoshop-enthusiast, Rijun Gui, a “specially recruited professor” at Qingdao University in China. There is also a female lead, Gui’s wife and colleague Hui Jin. Almost 30 of their papers, mostly published in Elsevier journals, are being discussed on and by PubPeer, one was already retracted by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
My regular contributor Smut Clyde will now lead you back on a trip to the magic world of “Nanotechnology”, where tiny particles are created, sometimes in real chemical laboratories, sometimes in the fake world of the Photoshop. Dong Ge Tong, of Chengdu University of Technology in China, is not just a photoshopper, but also a true philosopher.
Smut Clyde is a natural force I insidiously chose to harvest and unleash upon the worst cheaters of the researchContinue Reading
The Linköping University (LiU) in Sweden is quite busy these days with the affair around their fake professor Ashutosh Tiwari,Continue Reading
Ashutosh Tiwari, former employee of Linköping University, built an entire industry of predatory publishing and conferences, which hosted many among the material science research elite, all from a small rented office in the industrial area of Linköping. Tiwari’s genius trick was to play at the vanity and greed of certain academics.
Nanotechnology is the way to cure cancer and to save humanity of all its problems in general. The photoshopping team around the physicist Prashant Sharma and Rashmi Madhuri rode this train, till PubPeer sleuth interfered.
This is a guest post by Johan Thyberg, a 1947-born Swedish biologist and a well-known activist against science fraud. HisContinue Reading
A gang of Indian nanotechnology scientists, allegedly from Annamalai University in India, placed in 2014-2015 several papers in different journals,Continue Reading
Bone marrow stem cells are magic, they can do everything. If you don’t believe it, you are simply a loserContinue Reading
A large body of scientific nanotechnology literature is dedicated to the biomedical aspect of nanoparticle delivery into cells and tissues.Continue Reading
