Mentre guardavo altrove, l’instancabile Peer 1 ha documentato un plagio che il prof. Giovanni Tarantino dell’Azienda Ospedaliera dell’Università Federico II si è comprato sul World Journal of Gastroenterology – d’altronde ne è “senior scholar/peer reviewer” – nel 2007. I primi tre paragrafi sono copiati da tre fonti diverse, il seguito idem:
For the following 13 paragraphs (each with its own section heading), the words come from the Abstracts of 13 recent studies, with no evidence that Tarantino read the papers themselves. Was there a shortage of quotation marks in 2007?
Per ora Tarantino batte Finelli 19 a 16.
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L’acronimo sta per “Pan-Assay Interference” compounds, molecole che nei test “mandano falsi segnali” e sembrano legarsi a una proteina, scrive Monya Baker su Nature. Come la curcumina:
in an attempt to stem a continuing flow of muddled research, scientists have published the most comprehensive critical review yet of curcumin [K. M. Nelson et al. J. Med. Chem, 2017]— concluding that there’s no evidence it has any specific therapeutic benefits, despite thousands of research papers and more than 120 clinical trials.
Idem per i supplementi dietetici a base di curcuma – e non.
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Promessa mantenuta
Andrew Wakefield e seguaci sono soddisfatti. Da Reuters:
President-elect Trump has some doubts about the current vaccine policy, and he has questions about it,” [Robert Kennedy Jr.], who has raised questions about the safety of vaccines, told reporters after a meeting with Trump in New York on Tuesday. “He asked me to chair a commission on vaccine safety and scientific integrity. I said I would,” said Kennedy
Una portavoce del Peotus dice che non è stato deciso nulla, ma da ammiratore di Wakefield, Trump ripete spesso la pericolosa e redditizia menzogna (altri “consensus studies” nella colonna di destra) dei ciarlatani™ secondo la quale i vaccini causano l’autismo.
Rif. anche Stat; intervista di RK Jr. su Science e soliti commenti complottisti; Orac e le sue rassegne sulla crackpottery di RK Jr.
l’instancabile Peer 1
If I understand PubPeer correctly, whoever starts a thread is “Peer 1” in all following comments in that thread, the next commenter is “Peer 2”, and so on — there is no persistance from one thread to the next. So “Peer 1” could be a different person in every thread.
I might wrong, but these Peer 1s seem to have the same sense of humour.