By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Neanderthals colonised Europe and Middle East long before modern humans and went extinct less than 30,000 years ago, when our species has spread there. Their story inspired the fantasies of generation of scientists, some of whom still cannot accept the idea that Neanderthals were just another kind of humans very similar or maybe simply just like us. Even new age phrenology is paraded as scientific explanation to why Neanderthal died out.
Cardiff university declared their oncology professor and TCM peddler Wen Jiang innocent of any data manipulation. It then issued then a press release accusing me personally of having slandered Jiang with false allegations of misconduct.
“What about you? Do you find it risible when I say the name…” Michael Persinger? Either you are laughing already,Continue Reading
It is now quasi official: do not mess with Frontiers. My earlier reporting made it a credible possibility that thisContinue Reading
Journal peer review is a mysterious black box all scientists fear. The task of the reviewers is to help authorsContinue Reading
Frontiers published a paper titled: “Bread and Other Edible Agents of Mental Disease”. It is authored by two psychologists who declare that bread “can threaten our mental wellbeing”
Frontiers now retracts the paper by the retired surgeon Ivo P. Janecka “Sensing risk, fearing uncertainty: systems science approach toContinue Reading
In this article, I will compare editorial policies of two for-profit open access (OA) publishers, Frontiers and Hindawi. Though bothContinue Reading
The Heidelberg-based company TICEBA (abbreviated from Tissue & Cell Banking) is not your ordinary run-of-the-mill cell bank. This German company,Continue Reading
This is my currently final (two-part) instalment on the topic of Frontiers listing by Jeffrey Beall as a potential, possibleContinue Reading
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