By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Smut Clyde investigates two more Chinese paper mills. One teamed up with an obscure Italian publisher, the other offers access to respectable society journals. How much of published and allegedly peer reviewed science is real?
An investigation by Elisabeth Bik, Smut Clyde, Morty and Tiger BB8 reveals the workings of a paper mill. Its customers are Chinese doctors desperate for promotion. Apparently even journal editors are part of the scam, publishing fraudulent made-up science.
Smut Clyde studies two Chinese research groups to understand how TCM can be used to create modern Photoshop art.
Royal Society of Chemistry published a research paper which unashamedly peddled TCM, under the title: “Probing the Qi of traditional Chinese herbal medicines by the biological synthesis of nano-Au”. Both Editor-in-Chief and publisher executive saw no problem there because the paper passed peer review.
Smut Clyde and Tiger BB8 uncover a Chinese network which spreads over two cities and uses same stash of fake data to keep inventing nanoparticle or TCM-based cures for diabetic brain damage and other diseases.
Cardiff university declared their oncology professor and TCM peddler Wen Jiang innocent of any data manipulation. It then issued then a press release accusing me personally of having slandered Jiang with false allegations of misconduct.
This is a follow-up to the previous article, about a misconduct investigation at the Cardiff University in UK into theContinue Reading
The Cardiff University in UK is now investigating two cancer researchers, both senior professors, for suspected scientific misconduct. The evidenceContinue Reading
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