Yoshinori Watanabe data manipulations: much worse than officially presented
Earlier this months, a research misconduct scandal in molecular cell biology broke out in the big news. Yoshinori Watanabe,Continue Reading
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Voinnet’s sidekick Dunoyer welcomed at Nature Plants, despite retractions and admitted misconduct
The Olivier Voinnet scandal of almost two decades-long research misconduct and data manipulations has reached its logical conclusion. The FrenchContinue Reading
Post-publication peer review of a multimillion-dollar-heavy Nature paper
Is GPC1 from serum exosomes a marker to diagnose pancreatic cancer?
Sonia Melo fully exonerated and reinstalled as PI by her Portuguese employer I3S
The Portuguese cancer researcher Sonia Melo has been cleared of all suspicions of scientific misconduct by her employer Instituto de InvestigaçãoContinue 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
Conspiracy Theory: Is NPG being assimilated by Frontiers???
The post below is a satiric parody, though the general facts and the document I publish are real and true.Continue Reading
The stem cell faith healers, or magic inside your bone marrow
Bone marrow stem cells are magic, they can do everything. If you don’t believe it, you are simply a loserContinue Reading
Optionally transparent peer review: a major step forward, but which direction?
A journal of the Nature Publishing group (NPG) has recently announced “Transparent peer review at Nature Communications”. Transparent peer reviewContinue Reading
Is EMBO funding misconduct?
This is a NEWS post. My Twitter feed recently showed that the highly respected European research organisation, EMBO, is funding aContinue Reading
Stem cell cures for everything, Made in Germany by TICEBA
The Heidelberg-based company TICEBA (abbreviated from Tissue & Cell Banking) is not your ordinary run-of-the-mill cell bank. This German company,Continue Reading
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