Our Malady, by Timothy Snyder: book review
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.
Tag: United States
Academic Dynasties: meet the Nussenzweigs
Star scientists Michel and Andre Nussenzweig come from a famous family of immunologists. Clare Francis looked at some of their papers.
New JACS EiC Erick Carreira: “correct your work-ethic immediately”
Erick Carreira’s letter to Guido, from 1996. You all saw it probably at some point, and now it’s being discussed again.
How USA embraced research fraud: review of two books
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).
How David Ojcius and Jie Yan solved Leptospirosis
Beware of Chinese collaborators bearing gift authorships!
O du lieber Augustine MK Choi
Augustine Choi is Dean of Weill Cornell and a misunderstood genius. He discovered that carbon monoxide is a cure for all possible diseases, just add a bit of Photoshop.
Jill Fisher’s Adverse Events: a book review
The new book Adverse Events by Jill Fisher shows the reality behind phase 1 clinical trials in USA and the “healthy volunteers” who participate in those. Clue: they are not White middle-class university students with a penchant for altruism.
BethAnn McLaughlin affair: now also research fraud?
BethAnn McLaughlin is a liar, a racist, an embezzler, and a dangerous manipulative bully. But surely she is at least a great neuroscientist?
Whom to sacrifice for Human Challenge Trials?
Science elites are demanding human challenge trials NOW. Science journalists cheer them on. Should healthy volunteers be infected with the Coronavirus? And if yes, who exactly will it be?
Dr. Ignarro has suffered stigma, and was denied at least two interviews on television
“The presence of such articles online have severely affected Dr. Louis J. Ignarro’s public reputation, and his personal life.
Dr. Ignarro disputes any accusations of wrongdoing. There was no fabrication of data, although there was a mistaken duplication of data which occurred due to error. None of the data was false.” -J.L. Perez, Esq.
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