Wagner Ring Festival in Vienna
Erwin Wagner is not related to the famous German composer but we shall enjoy the Ring Festival with him and his friends anyway.
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Erwin Wagner is not related to the famous German composer but we shall enjoy the Ring Festival with him and his friends anyway.
Schneider Shorts 4.04.2025 – cancer center director in USA and university rector in Austria need to check their papers, Egyptian geniuses recycle a spectrum 12 times, with amazing corrections by ACS and Elsevier, Nazi paper retracted, and finally, a Dutch sexual predator sacked by court order.
Too many scientists defend the practice of not probing for loading controls for each protein gel. They say a “library” method perfectly suffices, when one separate loading control gel is run once for reference. Such sloppiness can sometimes be a hint of even worse practices taking place.
Western blot, a method to separate proteins by size and analyse their relative expression levels, is a much maligned techniqueContinue Reading



