Can lawyers influence a misconduct investigation? Case of Tina Wenz
Tina Wenz is a German mitochondria biologist, who was now found guilty of research misconduct in her six publications, authoredContinue Reading
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Professors: innocent victims of snakes at their bosoms? A guest post from Sweden
Certain previous cases do not make Swedish investigative authorities look good in regard to research ethics.
Maria Fousteri, the ERC-funded western blot cheater
“The Committee concludes that serious breaches of scientific integrity have been committed by Dr. Fousteri while employed at the Leiden University Medical Center.”
Does ERC help cheaters pay protection money?
Did you ever wonder why certain zombie scientists were still in academic jobs? Despite having been caught on data manipulationContinue Reading
The smelly compost heap of plant-based nanoparticles
A gang of Indian nanotechnology scientists, allegedly from Annamalai University in India, placed in 2014-2015 several papers in different journals,Continue Reading
The infectious self-plagiarism of radiologist Hedvig Hricak
In medicine, academic performance is evaluated quantitatively, by the sheer number of papers. Promotions are granted according to the publicationContinue 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
Self-Plagiarism: helps careers, hurts noone?
Times Higher Education recently reported about an online survey on research integrity of British scientists. The study was performed andContinue Reading
Berlin head ophthalmologist Joussen deploys lawyer to silence my reporting, demands from me €80,000 damages
I received a lawyer’s letter, where I am instructed to delete my report about the Berlin head ophthalmologist Antonia JoussenContinue Reading
Mario Saad and the return of the wandering western blot
“A clinical trial of fake news, by Mario Saad”
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