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See no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil See also the last paragraph of my previous post for a comment on the too slow and inappropriate response of CNRS and université of Lille to this case.

In March 2023, Dorothy Bishop and sixteen other internationally recognised leaders in the field of scientific integrity took the unusual step of sending an open letter to the CEO of CNRS to highlight that “the response [to unambiguous evidence of data manipulation] by institutions, publishers and funders is typically slow, opaque and inadequate, and is biased in favour of the accused, paying…

82% self-citation and grave misrepresentation in an ACS Nano Focus article

This post is cross-posted at PubPeer. Mirkin and Petrosko review with enthusiasm and even a certain amount of lyricism the properties and applications of Spherical Nucleic Acids, an expression coined by Mirkin to describe particles prepared in the Mirkin group. Out of the 186 cited references, 160 or 82% have Mirkin as an author. Of the 36 other references, 16 are reviews, books or pre-1920…

Gold injections - how to use the scientific literature to sell snake oil to patients

To know more about the adventures of Dr Doxey, an unscrupulous charlatan ready to do anything to sell his worthless elixir, read the Lucky Luke Western album by Morris. To know more about Goldic, a real story that does not happen in Lucky Luke’s imagined Wild West, but in the present time, in the UK, Germany and possibly other places, where doctors will take your money in exchange of a…

Reply from Wolfgang Parak

Regular readers will remember a recent post where I documented the critical peer review of 20 influential (more than a 1000 citations) articles. I reviewed them initially in a Twitter thread and then also reproduced my comments on PubPeer.

Wolfgang Parak, corresponding author of one of these 20 papers (Cytotoxicity of colloidal CdSe and CdSe/ZnS nanoparticles), has kindly responded to my…