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My Walles trachea transplant reporting fails peer review

My attempt recently to inform the readers of the journal Tissue Engineering Part A about grave omissions and factual inconsistenciesContinue Reading

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The stinking fish of Strasbourg

A 2014 publication from the lab of Laurence Maréchal-Drouard, director of CNRS IBMP institute in Strasbourg, seems to contain evidence of inappropriate data manipulation. Other versions of this...

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Three retractions and lost court case for zombie Susana Gonzalez

The Spanish zombie scientist Susana González, former star of regenerative medicine and ageing research, now retracts two papers in NatureContinue Reading

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Würzburg misconduct Commission acquits Walles, dismisses biased medical...

The University of Würzburg did not ignore the Open Letter in support of my journalism, and has concluded its internalContinue Reading

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Walles tracheal transplant patients: secrets and lies

The German trachea transplanters Heike and Thorsten Walles fitted three patients with pig-intestine-based airway grafts. They responded to my inquisitiveContinue Reading

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The Kenneth Chien Case at Karolinska, by Johan Thyberg

This is a new guest post from Johan Thyberg, a retired professor for cell and molecular biology from Sweden, aContinue Reading

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Updated: Retraction, and another looming misconduct finding for Macchiarini...

The misconduct-tainted paper on oesophagus transplants in rats (Sjöqvist et al 2014) by the fallen star of regenerative medicine Paolo Macchiarini isContinue Reading

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Will words or actual evidence count in the Walles case?

On March 16th I stood a court trial by the trachea transplanters and University of Würzburg professors  Heike and ThorstenContinue Reading

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COPE, the publishers’ Trojan horse, calls to abolish retractions

Four private scientists without any agenda whatsoever published a research result preprint on the portal BioRxiv. The “new results” reportedContinue Reading

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Sumitran-Holgersson and Olausson guilty of misconduct and unethical...

Game over apparently near for the indestructible Swedish regenerative medicine researcher Suchitra Sumitran-Holgersson, after investigations at her University of Gothenburg  drawContinue Reading

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