Professor Grune’s diet of dodgy blots
As German TV asks Tilman Grune what he will eat in the future, I have other questions for him.
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
As German TV asks Tilman Grune what he will eat in the future, I have other questions for him.
“I should have checked these images more closely, but they were intended to be representative images rather than duplications or forgeries of other images.” – Crishan Samuel
“Forgeries of this calibre make me think anything ever published by Sliwinski, Skorski and their associates is made up. In an ideal world, hundreds of articles by these people showing just tables and graphs should get retracted ” – Aneurus Inconstans
“Authors thank the members of NeuroDigitech for their contribution to data generation, and all the animals that contributed to these studies.”
Kathleen Seidel analysed two papers by Mark and David Geier, which claimed that mercury in vaccines caused autism
Will Vilhelm win a Nobel Prize of his own? And for what?
“While papermills certainly pollute the literature the most in terms of numbers, I believe the spotlight should equally be on questionable research groups at top institutions, whose articles might have an even larger negative impact on society” – Aneurus Incostans
“In our 45 years together, I have never witnessed anywhere the level of abuse that Robert endured.” – Mrs Malone
“What is most concerning is that Colossal’s ‘dire wolves’ have now attracted the attention of the Trump administration.” – Ronan Taylor
“An attractive new prospect: Install the Chinese paper mill directly at Yale University, where research oversight is presumably less stringent than at the PRC and NIH funds are more easily accessed to piss up the wall.” – Sholto David









