The Strasbourg Swamp
You know Voinnet, but now meet other great life scientists of Strasbourg: Drouard, Loeffler, Boutillier, Mr and Mrs Egly, and many others.
Tag: plant sciences
Rick Vierstra probably meant well
“I feel that these continuous comments(s) may be pushing the boundaries, which should also be a concern for PubPeer.” – Dr Richard Vierstra
Iberian yeast masters do it classic with a flip
“These figures were elaborated by me personally and I remember quite well how I made them. Definitely, the images shown in this figure were cut and pasted from the originals in order to elaborate the figures, the overlapping was done “manually” using GIMP…” – Dr. José R Pérez-Castiñeira
Schneider Shorts 4.02.2022 – Infallibly Fragile Male Ego
Schneider Shorts 4.02.2022 – great men of science under attack wherever one looks, British doctors had fun with coronavirus, plus saving the climate with Arctic Elephants, saving billionaires from old age, and why saving a violent gormless crook is an ungrateful task.
Caught in a SNARE
“You can be assured that neither I nor any of my colleagues […] would tolerate any data manipulation.” – Natasha Raikhel
Científicos al borde de un ataque de nervios
Dead men don’t talk. A dead colleague, especially a foreigner, is a perfect scapegoat to blame for fake data in your papers. And in your own PhD thesis.
Finding the Mother Tree, by Suzanne Simard: book review
“But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself” – Quote by Rachel Carson, used as opening of Simard’s book.
Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition!
“Recently we realized that some images were used wrongly in the paper, so I want to retract this article.
The key message of the paper is very solid and results have been reproduced independently in many laboratories, but I find unacceptable the wrong use of some images during figure preparation” – Pedro L Rodriguez
Hat, Socks and Glyphosate
What do scientists wear when handling glyphosate? Not what they tell you.
Schneider Shorts 14.05.2021: Conclusions not affected
This week’s Schneider Shorts are about unaffected conclusions and destroyed raw data, the war on virus, vaccines and antivaxxers, and the virtues of having a long nose.
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