TigerBB8 – For Better Science

by Leonid Schneider March 26, 2019 22

Yubing Sun: contaminated science, Synchrotron fraud and citation scam

Smut Clyde and TigerBB8 investigate another case of nanotechnology research in China. Connected teams of authors pretended to work on cleaning up the environment of radioactive pollution, and instead released a toxic sludge of fraudulent data and citations.

by Leonid Schneider February 27, 2019 26

Guest post Research integrity

Colonel Cai, his postdoc Shen and the Weapons of Mass Fabrication

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.

by Leonid Schneider January 21, 2019 20

Guest post medicine Research integrity University Affairs

Chinese university hospital denounces “malicious attack” by Western vaccine industry

Manipulated data in 17 papers from one cancer research lab in China gets flagged on PubPeer. It ends with the university hospital in Wuhan issuing a secret statement accusing the US pharma giant a Merck of a conspiracy to slander a Chinese Academy member, Dr Ding Ma.

by Leonid Schneider November 27, 2018 19

Guest post medicine News

CRISPRed babies in China: a growing scandal

First gene-edited human babies were allegedly born, two twin girls. Jiankui He, associate professor at the South University of Science and Technology of China claimed to have used CRISPR gene editing technology, in a registered clinical trial, to make babies resistant to HIV. Did this really happen? In any case, everyone now takes distance to He.

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