The Pratfalls of Domenico Pratico
Next time you wonder why mouse research does not translate to humans, think of Domenico Pratico work on Alzheimer’s and other brain diseases.
Tag: whistleblowing
Macchiarini victim to Swedish prosecutor: “Claudia is alive and must be called to testify”
Macchiarini’s victim Paloma Cabeza speaks out again, fearing she doesn’t have much time left. She appeals to the Swedish prosecutor for justice in the deadly trachea transplant scandal.
Jan van Deursen’s senolytics: from bench to failed clinical trial
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.
Jan van Deursen’s bullying: lab members speak out
“There is a clear difference between being a taskmaster and a bully. There just is. Jan was definitely both.” – Robin Ricke, former postdoc in van Deursen’s Mayo Clinic lab
Extraordinary results of the Olomouc Nano-con
This is a guest post by two whistleblowers from the Palacky University in Olomouc. In the centre of the growing research misconduct and retaliation scandal: the nanotechnology professor Radek Zboril
Jan van Deursen left Mayo Clinic, accused of bullying
Cancer and ageing researcher Jan van Deursen has silently left the Mayo Clinic, over allegations of bullying.
Losing research ethics and mental health in Daley lab
A former Harvard postdoc from the lab of George Q Daley tells his story.
Chainsaw Chang and Soo Not Ok Lee
Smut Clyde celebrates here a highly successful US cancer research lab at University of Rochester. Its head is Chawnshang “Chainsaw” Chang, and his most productive scientist is Soo “Not” Ok Lee.
Spiderman’s lawyer is having you for dinner tonight
Spider researcher Jonathan Pruitt is accused by his coauthors of data manipulations, after 3 retractions they demand more. A lawyer’s letter was supposed to stop that, but Pruitt tells me: “I’m happy for folks to engage in public discourse about my data integrity””
Bologna cover-up at Oxford University Press
This is the second part of the Bologna whistleblower account. As the university was burying their own misconduct findings, Oxford University Press and their ignoble editor were busy punishing and gaslighting the whistleblower.
