Attack of the Photoclones: Sharma-Madhuri Prequel
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David Latchman, the reckless Master of Birkbeck
This is a story of David Latchman, Master of Birkbeck at University of London, professor of genetics at UCL and Commander of the Order of the British Empire. As Birkbeck and UCL were repeatedly bombarded with evidence of data manipulation, Latchman was (pretend)-investigated on misconduct charges twice. Naturally, neither whitewashing report was released to public.
The Perennial Northern Blot of Lopez-Otin
Cancer researcher Carlos López-Otín published the same Northern blot no less than 23 times in 23 publications, between 1994 and 2006. Eventually Lopez-Otin et al even stopped caring what order of samples that original loading control had.
Michael Persinger’s crank magnetism
“What about you? Do you find it risible when I say the name…” Michael Persinger? Either you are laughing already,Continue Reading
Fried Divine Comedy, featuring anti-cancer cockroach and phallic fungus
This is a follow-up to the previous article, about a misconduct investigation at the Cardiff University in UK into theContinue Reading
Sharma’s bad karma, or is anyone peer reviewing nanotechnology?
Nanotechnology is the way to cure cancer and to save humanity of all its problems in general. The photoshopping team around the physicist Prashant Sharma and Rashmi Madhuri rode this train, till PubPeer sleuth interfered.
How Irun Cohen and Weizmann Institute almost cured diabetes
This is a new episode of the data manipulation affair around Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel (and another guestContinue Reading
Yehiel Zick, Weizmann’s resident Western blot artist
The Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, is not just a renowned biomedical research centre of world calibre. ItContinue Reading
The rise and fall of an antivax paper
Mirror neurons and little men in boats, by Smut Clyde
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