“Unreliable” by Csaba Szabo – book review and excerpt
Csaba Szabo’s book “Unreliable: Bias, Fraud, and the Reproducibility Crisis in Biomedical Research” – review by Zoltan Ungvari and excerpt.
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Wafik El Deiry, the anti-qualified Science Guardian
Both Harvey Risch and Wafik El Deiry are perfectly anti-qualified candidates to lead the National Cancer Institute.
Fake-O-Meat by Ali Khademhosseini
Ali Khademhosseini is the greatest American researcher in regenerative medicine. His mentees are all professors themselves now. In his own Californian institute, he grows not only all possible organs, but even hamburgers!
A Yale fossil
As a Rainmaker friend of Richard Flavell once said many times, “What is the problem here?”
The Pestilence of Pestell
Richard Pestell MB, BS, MD, PhD, FACP, FRACP. MBA, FRCP, FRSB, AO is the most dashing doctor a girl or a boy can ever dream of. What luck for Michael Lisanti to have been invited for a ride!
Carlos Cordon-Cardo and Friends
The Schneider Rule teaches that if you wish to meet many science cheaters you must follow one of them.
Cerebrolysin: Sharmas, Masliah, and EVER Pharma
“Poking around PubMed (Dysdera the spider is always on the hunt for new hornet’s nests) [..], I came across one image in two papers by Eliezer Masliah. […] By a conservative count, I contributed to about 160 out of 300 slides in the final dossier” – Mu Yang
Dirty Old Men
Does being a science genius entitle you to sexual harassment, as academic authorities in Yale and elsewhere insist? Let’s look at papers by Michael Simons, Joseph Schlessinger and Arnold Levine.
Cancer at Duke? Better call Sal!
“I have NEVER faked data. If you wish to carry on what appears to be a vendetta please supply me the name of your lawyer and I will have my lawyer contact him.” – Sal Pizzo, Duke University
Thomas Südhof and AI-powered weapons of micro-duplication
Thomas Südhof, victim of racist and sexist persecution, announced to retract a second paper, “even though the quantitative analyses and conclusions are correct”.
For Better Science 