Danish neuroscientist sentenced by court for lying about faked experiments
In a rare development, neuroscientist Milena Penkowa has been sentenced by a Danish court for faking data. The ruling, from the Copenhagen City Court, resulted from Penkowa’s publication of her 2003...
View ArticleMol bio paper pulled by PLOS following investigation into figures
PLOS Biology has retracted a paper about the molecular details of β-catenin expression following an investigation by the first author’s institution in Italy. The investigation, by the Istituto...
View ArticleDenmark court clears controversial psychologist of misconduct charges
A Danish court has determined that psychologist Helmuth Nyborg did not commit misconduct in a controversial 2011 paper which predicted an influx of immigrants into Denmark would lower the population’s...
View ArticleSeven more retractions for anti-terrorism prof brings count to 15
Anti-terrorism researcher Nasrullah Memon has notched seven more retractions, bringing his total up to 15 — earning him a spot on our leaderboard. We previously reported on eight pulled papers authored...
View ArticleDanish court dismisses charges against neuroscientist in appeal of fraud verdict
A Copenhagen court has cleared neuroscientist Milena Penkowa of the most serious charges against her after she appealed a 2015 verdict that she had faked data. According to the CPH Post, the Eastern...
View ArticleDanish university revokes PhD of anti-terrorism researcher
Anti-terrorism researcher Nasrullah Memon has lost his PhD after a committee in Denmark found he had plagiarized his doctoral thesis. He’s also recently been let go by his latest employer, the...
View ArticlePlant journal flags fungus paper amid investigation
A journal has issued an expression of concern (EOC) for a recently published study after a probe identified “problems with the figure presentation.” According to the EOC notice in New Phytologist, two...
View ArticleDenmark to institute sweeping changes in handling misconduct
In six weeks, new policies for handling misconduct in Denmark will go into effect, which alter the definition of misconduct and establish clear policies for who handles such allegations. Starting July...
View ArticleCopenhagen revokes degree of controversial neuroscientist Milena Penkowa
The University of Copenhagen has stripped Milena Penkowa of her doctoral degree, after determining she had covered up problems with her research. According to a release issued today by the university,...
View ArticleCaught Our Notice: Forgot to make your article open access? It’ll cost you...
Title: Industrial antifoam agents impair ethanol fermentation and induce stress responses in yeast cells What Caught Our Attention: When authors decide they want to make their articles freely available...
View ArticleOverlooked virus “generated a mess,” infected highly cited Cell, PNAS papers
When Alexander Harms arrived at the University of Copenhagen in August 2016, as a postdoc planning to study a type of antibiotic resistance in bacteria, he carried with him a warning from another lab...
View ArticleMedical ethicist: “I now understand that I should not have been re-using...
A researcher in medical ethics has retracted two papers within the last two years after admitting to reusing material from previous publications. Ezio Di Nucci, based at the University of Copenhagen,...
View Article‘Search for inspiration’ lands too close to plagiarism, forcing retraction of...
A pair of grief scholars in Denmark have lost a 2018 paper on ghostly apparitions after one of the researchers copied text from another article. The study, “How many bereaved people hallucinate about...
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