Inspector Voinnet, Wollman in fraud-overdrive, and Farewell to Jessus
Catherine Jessus resigned, Olivier Voinnet solves the crime he was suspected of, and their mutual investigator Francis-Andre Wollman might want to investigate his own papers
Tag: Patrice Dunoyer
Olivier Voinnet, the new Dreyfus?
Much of French media and academia, and certainly also the international plant science community now debates a hot conspiracy theory: what if Olivier Voinnet is actually innocent, a visionary genius who fell prey to a conspiracy of fraudulent colleagues and scheming bureaucrats? I discuss here the widespread dishonesty and data manipulation among Voinnet’s co-authors and peers. Is French research culture to blame?
Olivier Voinnet: not guilty in past, present and future
Olivier Voinnet, responsible for probably the biggest fraud scandal in plant sciences, is back in the news. His present employer ETH Zürich has now concluded, in collaboration with CNRS, their second investigation into data manipulations in Voinnet papers. The ETH professor was declared innocent of any data manipulations, in the past, present and even future.
Why Nature Genetics overlooks Voinnet cheatings
The Olivier Voinnet affair is now a distant past. Despite new evidence of manipulated data still popping up, journals drew a line. Especially the elite journal Nature Genetics, which may or may not have to do with their Editor-in-Chief Myles Axton having some strange data in his paper.
CNRS hits back at the stream of misconduct evidence
The French scientific society CNRS, a huge country-wide network of research institutes and one of the most influential science institutionsContinue Reading
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
Updated: CNRS lab of Voinnet’s right hand Patrice Dunoyer dissolved by director’s decree
The lab of Olivier Voinnet’s right hand man at IBMP Strasbourg has been dissolved. The news about the end of Patrice Dunoyer’s scientific career appeared on my site long before the information became official.
The travelling circus of research integrity in Strasbourg
On March 8, an international scientific review board will be evaluating the research at the French CNRS Institut de Biologie MoléculaireContinue Reading
Voinnet retraction brings entire school of thought crashing down
Another retraction hits the fallen star plant scientist Olivier Voinnet. This time it is a previously corrected paper in Science,Continue Reading
Olivier Voinnet case: correcting the uncorrectable
The case of the former star plant scientist Olivier Voinnet is being quietly concluded. After now seven paper retractions, more than twiceContinue Reading
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