Science journalism by Leonid Schneider, on research integrity and academic publishing in life sciences and biomedicine
My review of the new book by Brian Deer about what became the biggest medical scandal in recent history: Andrew Wakefield’s fraudulent research on MMR vaccines and his antivax campaigning which continues even today.
“Even after people have been telling you for, you know, 20 years or more that it’s going to happen, no one expects it.” -Gregg Semenza, Nobel Prize winner 2019
Who brought us COVID-19? The Neanderthals. The susceptibility to the SARS-CoV2 coronavirus, but also to diabetes, obesity, allergies, skin diseases, smoking and autism all happened because your great-[…]-great-grandfather could not keep his todger in his trousers many thousands of years ago.
It was only logical that COVID-19 will be cured with vitamin supplements. Peer-reviewed science is now catching up with the bustling Vitamin D market.
US Historian Timothy Snyder is expert for murderous totalitarian systems. Now, he himself almost died when he succumbed to the inhuman US profiteering industry which America calls healthcare.
Jan van Deursen had to resign from Mayo Clinic over bullying charges. With his company Unity Biotech’s phase 2 clinical trial failed, stock devalued and staff laid-off, van Deursen sued me in German court about the reproducibility of his senolytics research.
Star scientists Michel and Andre Nussenzweig come from a famous family of immunologists. Clare Francis looked at some of their papers.
Erick Carreira’s letter to Guido, from 1996. You all saw it probably at some point, and now it’s being discussed again.
A review of “The Baltimore Case” by the historian Daniel Kelves and “Science Fictions” by the journalist John Crewdson, which also tell the history of the Office of Research Integrity (ORI).
Beware of Chinese collaborators bearing gift authorships!
