Science journalism by Leonid Schneider, on research integrity and academic publishing in life sciences and biomedicine
Karolinska Institutet announced its decision on 6 papers by their former professor and surgeon, Paolo Macchiarini. All are to be retracted, 7 scientists were found guilty of research misconduct, including one of the whistleblowers.
An update to the ongoing cartoon Stalinism propaganda and purge activities at the EU largest research institution, the French CNRS,Continue Reading
Earlier this months, a research misconduct scandal in molecular cell biology broke out in the big news. Yoshinori Watanabe,Continue Reading
The MD Anderson Cancer Center, part of the University of Texas and located in Houston, is a giant hub ofContinue Reading
The Spanish zombie scientist Susana González, former star of regenerative medicine and ageing research, now retracts two papers in NatureContinue Reading
Below a support letter by Rafael Cantera, professor of zoology at the University of Stockholm in Sweden, addressed to theContinue Reading
Protein expression analysis by western blots appears to be the weak spot of life science, because these blots are soContinue Reading
Below I am publishing a recent letter to the Vice-Chancellor of Karolinska Institutet (KI) Karin Dahlman-Wright, authored by the four KI medicalContinue Reading
Michael Blatt, Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Glasgow and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Plant Physiology, is backContinue Reading
