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
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“Notification of Suspected Research Misconduct”, by 4 Macchiarini-whistleblowers
I am publishing a recent letter to the Vice-Chancellor of Karolinska Institutet (KI) Karin Dahlman-Wright, authored by the four KI medical researchers, Matthias Corbascio, Oscar Simonson, Karl-Henrik Grinnemo and Thomas Fux.
Sumitran-Holgersson’s funding frozen, paper retracted
The misconduct-tainted University of Gothenburg professor of transplantation biology Suchitra Sumitran-Holgersson (see my detailed report here), has now lost aContinue Reading
Macchiarini’s patients, the real situation
Paolo Macchiarini, former star surgeon at Swedish Karolinska Insitutet (KI), came back to Sweden to give his version of theContinue Reading
The stem cell faith healers, or magic inside your bone marrow
Bone marrow stem cells are magic, they can do everything. If you don’t believe it, you are simply a loserContinue Reading
Macchiarini and the tracheal regeneration scandal, by Pierre Delaere
This is an open letter to the academic community by Pierre Delaere, professor for respiratory surgery at KU Leuven, Belgium, and oneContinue Reading
Macchiarini, Birchall, Seifalian and EU-funded human experimenting
The disgraced surgeon Paolo Macchiarini has now been officially sacked from Karolinska Institutet (KI) in Sweden, while also the entireContinue Reading
Macchiarini’s German (ex-)friends: Jungebluth and Bader
The trachea-transplant “super- surgeon” Paolo Macchiarini seems to be sitting out the Swedish investigations of his misconduct and patients’ deathsContinue Reading
Sumitran-Holgersson: misconduct and regenerative travesty in Sweden
The Paolo Macchiarini scandal draws wider circles, and unfortunately, it involves more unnecessary patient deaths though questionable tracheal transplants, thisContinue Reading
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