Linköping haunted by fake spectra
Linköping University has another potential research misconduct case, again in material sciences. Four papers by LiU professors Ömer Nur and Magnus Willander are questioned on PubPeer
Tag: nanotechnology
Elsevier’s research integrity
A Chinese paper gets rejected at Elsevier after reviewer spotted fraud. Same paper re-appears unchanged in another Elsevier journal, the editors refuse any action.
Deliferate misteaks by Tradional Chinese Medicine
Smut Clyde studies two Chinese research groups to understand how TCM can be used to create modern Photoshop art.
Zombie fingers inside corroded nano-piecrusts
Smut Clyde is back with more fraudulent nanotechnology. This time, he presents the works of Dhanaraj Gopi, who designs fabricated surfaces for surgical implants. In Photoshop, or with a pencil.
Fake spectra googling #CleanYourScience
This guest post invites you to join the hunt for fabricated data in your science field of interest. Use Google image search to #CleanYourScience!
Oscar Portillo Moreno – Pinche estúpido Dedica a trabar
The Mexican potty-mouth Oscar Portillo Moreno dopes nanostructured thin films, or so he says. In reality it is not clear if he ever performed any experiments.
Leopoldina and Tiwari’s scamferences, or what’s the point of Academies
The German Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina, advertises for Ashutosh Tiwari’s predatory conferences. Occasion: Academician Herbert Gleiter won an IAAM Award.
New fraud findings and new heart surgery business for Ashutosh Tiwari
Ashutosh Tiwari and his patron Tony Turner were found guilty of research misconduct by Linköping University. Turner is to be sacked as EiC of his Elsevier journal Biosensors and Bioelectronics, a paper he tried to correct there will be retracted. Meanwhile, Tiwari and his LiU colleague Mikael Syväjärvi started a new business: they offer heart surgeries in India.
Carrots and sticks for fraudsters at Royal Society of Chemistry
Smut Clyde goes nanotechnology again and disagrees with Royal Society of Chemistry and the Chinese authorities on how honest a researcher Mi-Cong Jin is.
Yogeshwer Shukla’s toxic career of Ayurvedic infusions
Professor Shukla is a bigwig in Indian toxicology because he uses fresh fruit, tea and curry spices to cure cancer. For maximum effect, his lab resorts to fabricating data in Photoshop.
