Journal announces to clean up past literature, gets “smeared” by Retraction Watch
On June 9th 2017, the research integrity news website Retraction Watch brought an article titled: „Journal won’t look at allegationsContinue Reading
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Pfizer announces more retractions for sacked lab head Min-Jean Yin, whistleblower revealed
The pharma giant Pfizer announced to continue investigating the data manipulations committed by their former cancer researcher Min-Jean Yin, retractionsContinue Reading
Bioethicist Arthur Caplan calls for retraction of all Macchiarini papers
Arthur Caplan, internationally respected professor of bioethics and director of the Division of Medical Ethics at the New York University,Continue Reading
COPE, the publishers’ Trojan horse, calls to abolish retractions
Four private scientists without any agenda whatsoever published a research result preprint on the portal BioRxiv. The “new results” reportedContinue Reading
Retraction, and another looming misconduct finding for Macchiarini and Jungebluth
The misconduct-tainted paper on oesophagus transplants in rats (Sjöqvist et al 2014) by the fallen star of regenerative medicine Paolo Macchiarini isContinue Reading
Three retractions and lost court case for zombie Susana Gonzalez
The Spanish zombie scientist Susana González, former star of regenerative medicine and ageing research, now retracts two papers in NatureContinue Reading
Macchiarini, Jungebluth guilty of research fraud, KI demands retraction of Nature Communications paper
The scandal surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, now professor at Federal University of Kazan in Russia, is preparing to experiment on monkeys usingContinue Reading
Voinnet retraction brings entire school of thought crashing down
Another retraction hits the fallen star plant scientist Olivier Voinnet. This time it is a previously corrected paper in Science,Continue Reading
5 retractions and a sack for Pfizer lead cancer researcher Min-Jean Yin
Five months ago, I reported about data integrity concerns in 6 publications authored by Min-Jean Yin, who had been workingContinue Reading
Manel Esteller, the Schrödinger cat of Barcelona
This text was first published on September 30th as Spanish translation on Hipertextual. The Spanish Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de BellvitgeContinue Reading
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