What Elsa Flores and Tyler Jacks taught each other
“PCR reactions run on agarose gels commonly look similar due to artifacts introduced by the agarose gel and comb.” Dr Elsa R Flores, Associate Director, Moffitt Cancer Center
Tag: United States
Toppling Giants in Stanford
Everyone is talking about Stanford’s President Marc Tessier-Lavigne now. OK, let’s talk about him, and how Stanford deals with research fraud. And then let’s talk about Thomas Rando.
Never have heroes like Robert Roeder
The Schneider Rule says that if you follow one bad scientist, you will meet many other research cheaters among their mentees and collaborators.
Torturing Small Animals
Animal abuse and bad science go hand in hand. Meet professors Ute Moll, Jordi Muntané, Sam W Lee and others.
Nuttingham Trash University
“I will not by myself, or be instructing or encouraging any other person or howsoever othewise, publish or cause to be published words or otherwise howsoever make statements to others which wrongfully refer to Nottingham Trent University and/or their employees and for any person or any body associated with Nottingham Trent University”
Anatomy of a Retraction 2 – Superconductive Fraud
Maarten van Kampen dispels the superconductive illusions of Ranga Dias and Ashkan Salamat. Will we also receive a cease-and-desist letter now?
Ancestral Vices, prophesying war
“My attention was first drawn to Blum, Febo & Badgaiyan for what was either a ground-breaking advance in scientific illustration, or an attempt to win the inaugural Cheese Promotion Cup” – Smut Clyde
C Ronald Kahn and The Problem of Irreproducible Bioscience Research
“not everyone in the research community accepts that the problem requires such attention; some believe it is overblown.” -Jeffrey Flier, emeritus dean of Harvard Medical School
ORI Fail
“Dr. Elgazzar is a brilliant researcher”
Temple of Stolen Pig Materials
“This is a fight between two distinguished academics and the University at which they have tenure over a Pig Model….”
For Better Science 