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.
Tag: plant sciences
Remember Charles-Henri Lecellier?
Charles-Henri Lecellier is about to get promoted to CNRS research director 2nd class. Time to dig up old stories and let the ghosts rise to wash their dirty laundry.
Meaningless and pseudoscientific potatoes
How to cook potato data. A recipe from Poland.
Stefano Mancuso’s Brilliant Green and Plant Revolution: review of two books
Here I review two more books by Stefano Mancuso, a somewhat unorthodox plant scientist from Florence
Schneider Shorts 23.04.2021- Italian Mystery Troll
Schneider Shorts 23 April 2021: exciting COVID-19 clinical trials, blood tests for depression, photoshopped plant science, more tea with Professor Seeberger, chocolate diets, amazing cancer cures, and an Italian mystery troll obsessed with me.
Stefano Mancuso’s Nation of Plants: review of two books
Stefano Mancuso studies neuroscience of plants. I review two of his recent popular science books: “The Incredible Journey of Plants” and “The Nation of Plants”.
Science misconduct
Scholarly publishing is broken, and no repair is possible. At least let’s point fingers at the elites and laugh. Can science trust Science?
Magdalena Migocka blames students for impending retractions
Magdalena Migocka is a shooting star of plant sciences in Poland. Now she will have to retract at least two papers, for which she blames her incompetent students.
Get a life with Gary Stacey
Gary Stacey is soybean researcher at University of Missouri and ASPB member. Whatever problems you might have with his science, the university already attested him a “clean bill of health”. Get a life.
Sally Assmann, right EiC choice for Plant Cell?
The Plant Cell is getting a new Editor-in-Chief, Sally Assmann. In a sense, she brings with her the necessary expertise in research integrity this journal sorely needs.
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