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.
Tag: Nature Publishing Group
Faking Raw Data with an Iron Fist
“you can rest your concerns. As you can see, we have not manipulated any images.” – Dr Arati Ramesh
Schneider Shorts 4.06.2021- Israeli Scientists Jokes
Schneider Shorts 4.06.2021: Israeli Scientists jokes, the business model of Nature Medicine, Retraction Watch exposing a fraudster, life extension by naturopathy, and a dirty old man.
Schneider Shorts 30.04.2021 – Sputnik Meltdown
Schneider Shorts 30 April 2021: a stupid Neanderthals study, Sputnik V meltdown, German anti-maskers in MDPI, and probably the most unethical COVID-19 clinical trial.
Don’t mess with Fatih Sen
Fake nanotechnology is always fun, but it does get extreme here. Word of advice: if you are in Turkey, better don’t point fingers at Professor Fatih Sen’s research. Things get broken easily.
Extraordinary results of the Olomouc Nano-con
This is a guest post by two whistleblowers from the Palacky University in Olomouc. In the centre of the growing research misconduct and retaliation scandal: the nanotechnology professor Radek Zboril
Bah Humbug
Edinburgh psychologists announce in Nature Communications genes for being rich. A Christmas Carol.
University of Nebraska: Honesty, it’s not for everyone
Elisabeth Bik reported 4 years ago 11 falsified papers by University of Nebraska oncologists. One was retracted, two corrected, the rest ignored.
Carlos Lopez-Otin and the revoked Nature Mentoring Award
St Carlos of Oviedo almost was canonised as Spain’s first living martyr, but now Nature revoked his mentoring award. Spanish media and science elites are desperate, even the Queen is not amused. The Royal Academy of Sciences insists Lopez-Otin is a victim of journal’s failure.
How Lopez-Otin et al mocked data policy at Nature Cell Biology
Elite journal Nature Cell Biology (NCB) requests deposition of raw data, in particular original scans of western blots and other gel analyses. Spanish star cancer researcher Carlos López-Otín, winner of 2017 Nature Mentoring Award, instead deposited whatever odd gel picture his lab had available, counting that nobody will bother to check. Yet readers did.
