Real rats tortured for fake neuroscience
Smut Clyde complained of his eyes hurting from all these repetitive patterns in neuron recordings. He now recovered, and wrote this report, about rat torturers of Michigan.
Tag: physiology
Gaetano Cairo’s doped science
Smut Clyde is back to Milan, to show you some more artworks exhibited at the Institute of General Pathology. He will give you a quick run of Gaetano Cairo’s doped science.
Fake data and real pomegranate juice in Nobelist Louis Ignarro’s papers
Louis J. Ignarro knew how to monetize his 1998 Nobel Prize for discovery of nitric oxide as molecular cell signalling agent. He made many millions selling dietary supplement for Herbalife and pomegranate juice for POM Wonderful Company. Some of that found its way (without proper conflict of interest declaration) into Ignarro’s peer reviewed papers. Those, done in collaboration with certain Photoshop artists like Claudio Napoli, contain clearly fabricated data.
Latchman and Wohl Foundation: gifts that keep on giving
David Latchman, Master of Birkbeck and professor of genetics at UCL was once again cleared of all suspicions of research misconduct, while his two subordinates took all the blame, for just 7 papers. Over 40 flagged for suspected data manipulations were ignored. Latchman is namely also Chair of the over £100 Million-heavy Maurice Wohl Charitable Foundation, which gave Birkbeck over £ 5mn.
Yehiel Zick, Weizmann’s resident Western blot artist; by Smut Clyde
The Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, is not just a renowned biomedical research centre of world calibre. ItContinue 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
Mario Saad and the return of the wandering western blot
The wandering western blot of Mario Saad (which I reported on previously) was spotted yet again, no less than threeContinue Reading
A personal tale of scientific misconduct
The Portuguese cancer researcher Sonia Melo was found guilty of “negligence in handling and presenting data” in her publications byContinue Reading
The Duodecuplication of a Wandering Western Blot
This is a story of western blot, which might be holding the current record of re-use. While other papers areContinue Reading
