How Bernhard Sabel cured the blind and saved science
“What do science and “true love” have in common? Both are infatuated by passion, but if trust is lost, it is almost impossible to go back.” – Bernhard Sabel
Tag: ophthalmology
Burt! This bloke won’t Kaggle!
“This is unedifying but illustrative on so many levels of how quickly papermills have parasitised the Open Science paradigm and strip-mined all its resources. It also illustrates how quickly the incantatory Worship Words of Machine Learning shut down the critical faculties of reviewers when included in a manuscript, convincing them that its ludicrous claims are merely restatements of what they already know.” – Smut Clyde
See no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil
Félix Sauvage tells how he blew the whistle on his collaborator: Sabine Szunerits
Luck in Sight
“It seems hard to accept any explanation that doesn’t somehow incriminate most of the people involved” – Sholto David
The Heidelberg whistleblower
“Given Jost Jonas’ high productivity and his German origin, could it be that he somehow profits from helping Asian institutions with boosting their publication metrics?” – Aneurus Inconstans
The London Eye
How Robin Ali and other London ophthalmologists make blind mice and blind children see.
Jan and Ricky, two blind mouse ophthalmologists
“I am the authorised spokesperson on this matter” – Prof Jan Provis, emerita dean
My Big Fat Greek Ophthalmology
From fake cancer research to fake ophthalmology – just follow Mitsi and Vassiliki and you’ll meet Dementios and other bad eye doctors, including a horrible German we hoped to never see again.
DFG decision: Antonia Joussen innocent victim of co-authors’ data manipulations
“The committee […] requests of you for future publications to assess well ahead and to question critically your responsibility for the contributions of the co-authors, also for your own protection.”
Dean acting outside his competence and the illusion of Freedom of Information in Germany
The Berlin head ophthalmologist Antonia Joussen once set her lawyer upon me, demanding up to €80000 in damages for my reportingContinue Reading
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