Novartis blockbuster linked to retracted papers : News blog
Japanese media are reporting some uncomfortable ties between Novartis and some suspicious Japanese research linked to valsartan (Diovan), a lucrative blood-pressure drug. Sales of the drug hit ¥119.2 billion (US$1.3 billion) in 2011, making it the top-selling drug for Novartis’s Japanese subsidiary and the third-best-selling drug in Japan. The boom in sales followed reports that it not only lowere
Self-proclaimed iPS pioneer admits lies but maintains pathbreaking procedure : News blog
The story keeps getting odder for Hisashi Moriguchi, the visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo who last week claimed a clinical breakthrough in using induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. Moriguchi said that he injected cells derived from iPS cells into six patients with heart failure, with positive therapeutic effect. But the story was so full of holes, and his scientific publications were
Rocks reveal red planet dry out : News blog
The drying out of Mars has been observed by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, thanks to layers of rock in a crater measuring 155 kilometres across. Inside the Gale Crater on Mars are exposed layers of rock kilometres thick, dating back billions of years. These rocks are sedimentary, and new data on them collected by the orbiter shows how the red planet dried up, according to a paper in Geophysic
The Great Beyond: INTERVIEW: author of spoof paper speaks (2007/11/09)
It’s the interview they all wanted. Earlier this week climate change sceptics were receiving an email from one Dr Mark Cox. In this email Dr Cox implored them to write about a tale of “treatment of some academic colleagues by what seems like a kind of ‘climate change mafia’”. Cox’s colleagues had discovered evidence that overthrew the idea of man-made global warming, the email said. Those who took
The Great Beyond: Fake climate change paper
Arguments over global warming have taken a strange turn. There’s a big hubbub in the blogosphere over a fake paper purporting to refute “manmade global warming theory”. The paper itself appears to have been removed from the web, but google’s cache of it is still there. There’s a cache of the “editorial” that goes with it as well. The paper concluded “We have no choice but to conclude that the rece
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