/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ en-us derekb.lowe@gmail.com 2013-06-11T06:17:53-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/06/11/more_on_the_gsk_shanghai_scandal.php The accusations of data fabrication at GlaxoSmithKline's China research site are quite real. That's what we get from the latest developments in the case, as reported by BioCentury, Pharmalot, and the news section at Nature Medicine. Jingwu Zang, lead author... 76468@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ The Scientific Literature 2013-06-11T06:17:53-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/06/07/mutato_nomine_de_te_fabula_narratur.php Reader may remember the sudden demise of science-fraud.org, under threats of legal action. Its author, Paul Brookes, had a steady stream of material pointing out what very much seemed to be altered and duplicated figures in many scientific publications. Now... 76464@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ The Scientific Literature 2013-06-07T11:19:26-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/06/06/research_fraud_at_gsk_shanghai.php Update: the story continues to develop. The scientist mentioned below, Jingwu Zang has been dismissed from GSK, and others are under investigation. The paper itself is in the process of being retracted. More here. This is quite bad. Reports have... 76459@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ The Scientific Literature 2013-06-06T06:06:09-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/05/17/a_little_ranbaxy_example.php Compare and contrast. Here we have Krishnan Ramalingam, from Ranbaxy's Corporate Communications department, in 2006: Being a global pharmaceutical major, Ranbaxy took a deliberate decision to pool its resources to fight neglected disease segments. . .Ranbaxy strongly felt that generic... 76422@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Infectious Diseases 2013-05-17T07:01:57-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/05/16/ranbaxy_looking_under_the_rock.php Here's an excellent, detailed look from Fortune at how things went off the rails at Ranbaxy and their generic atorvastatin (Lipitor). The company has been hit by a huge fine, and no wonder. This will give you the idea: On... 76421@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ The Dark Side 2013-05-16T12:37:19-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/05/07/one_case_of_plagiarism_down_two_zillion_to_go.php You may remember this case from Chemistry - A European Journal earlier this year, where a paper appeared whose text was largely copy-pasted from a previous JACS paper from another lab. This one has finally been pulled; Retraction Watch has... 76393@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ The Scientific Literature 2013-05-07T06:20:42-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/04/26/research_fraud_from_a_master_fraud_artist.php A couple of years back, I wrote about the egregious research fraud case of Diederick Stapel. Here's an extraordinary follow-up in the New York Times Magazine, which will give you the shivers. Here, try this part out: In one experiment... 76370@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ The Dark Side 2013-04-26T11:29:13-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/04/02/stealing_a_compound_to_set_up_in_china.php Here's a strange case worth keeping an eye on. Via Deborah Blum's Twitter feed we have this report of a researcher in Wisconsin being charged with economic espionage - specifically, investigational oncology. Huajun Zhao, 42, faces a single count of... 76321@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Cancer 2013-04-02T11:32:29-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/04/01/fake_journals_but_theyd_like_real_money.php I wish that this were an April Fool's entry - and a number of scientists would like for that to have been the case, too. Nature reports that at least two journals (Archives des Sciences from Geneva and Wulfenia, a... 76315@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ The Scientific Literature 2013-04-01T06:57:50-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/03/26/the_wyethelan_insider_trading_case_resolves.php You may remember this insider trading scandal from last year, involving a lead investigator for Wyeth/Elan's trials of bapineuzumab for Alzheimer's. Here's the sequel. The hedge fund involved has agreed to pay $600 million dollars to settle the charges, although... 76304@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Business and Markets 2013-03-26T06:56:53-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/03/14/thallium_poisoning_again.php I agree with something Chemjobber said about this case - there's clearly a lot more to it than we know. Last fall, a student at the University of Southampton in the UK was poisoned with arsenic and thallium. According to... 76277@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ The Dark Side 2013-03-14T07:39:16-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/03/06/anonymity_fakery_et_al.php I wanted to link to this piece at C&E News on the whole question of anonymity when it comes to comments on the chemical literature. This was brought on by the advent of Blog Syn, but it applied before that,... 76259@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ The Scientific Literature 2013-03-06T07:45:51-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/02/19/the_wages_of_copypasting.php A few weeks ago I mentioned this situation regarding work by Prof. Xi Yan. Two recent papers seem to have been substantially copy-pasted from earlier work published by completely different groups. Now See Arr Oh has some details on what... 76221@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ The Scientific Literature 2013-02-19T10:12:31-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/02/07/how_to_enhance_your_online_reputation_sure.php We will file this one under N, for Nerve, Lots Of. Readers will probably remember the cancer research scandal at Duke a couple of years ago, where Anil Potti turned out to have faked a wide range of results in... 76195@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ The Dark Side 2013-02-07T07:13:48-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/01/23/coincidence_no_doubt_well_some_doubt.php Has anyone happened to read this paper, from 2009, or this one, from this year? Well, Shawn Burdette of WPI has, and he noticed that (to a significant extent) they're the same paper. Prof. Valerie Pierre of Minnesota, author of... 76156@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ The Scientific Literature 2013-01-23T10:04:04-05:00