Blame Your Students
“I should have checked these images more closely, but they were intended to be representative images rather than duplications or forgeries of other images.” – Crishan Samuel
Tag: pharmacology
Would you in Lodz?
“Forgeries of this calibre make me think anything ever published by Sliwinski, Skorski and their associates is made up. In an ideal world, hundreds of articles by these people showing just tables and graphs should get retracted ” – Aneurus Inconstans
Fraud by Thousand Needles
” I can’t even begin to imagine the psychological damage of joining a lab as a new postgrad student and having people like Ryan F. Donelly as your supervisor and Andi as the postdoc, it must be heartbreaking. ” – Sholto David
Shocked, angered and appalled
“I have been following the comments on PubPeer, and have been shocked, angered and appalled by the issues […] there can be no explanation for this other than systemic fraud “- Prof Gareth Williams, UCL
Comet Hunting
“if you can solve a captcha you should be able to identify fabricated comet assay images. If you can’t, you can absolutely sit this one out, Springer Nature probably has a job for you instead.”- Sholto David
Iran-Man of Sussex and Wonder-Woman of Amsterdam
“no further steps will be taken as a result.”
Slipshod Self-service Ethnopharmacology
“Since Journal of Ethnopharmacology sees no reason to reject bear bile powder research like other scientific journals, that means you can expect to see anything there” – Parashorea tomentella
“Unreliable” by Csaba Szabo – book review and excerpt
Csaba Szabo’s book “Unreliable: Bias, Fraud, and the Reproducibility Crisis in Biomedical Research” – review by Zoltan Ungvari and excerpt.
Egyptian Toxicology Mortal Combat
“Stupid people do stupid things, After all it was an Egyptian who once told me: “10% editing is acceptable as long as we didn’t modify the significant ” – Sholto David
Dirty Old Men
Does being a science genius entitle you to sexual harassment, as academic authorities in Yale and elsewhere insist? Let’s look at papers by Michael Simons, Joseph Schlessinger and Arnold Levine.
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