Here’s another installment of PubPeer Selections:
- “Based on your posts and comments I decided that these questions need to be fully clarified and requested an independent investigation according to the rules of our university, which will review all primary raw data,” writes one of the authors of a paper featured last week in PubPeer Selections. “I have also informed the Journal accordingly.”
- “This paper is one of a series by Nobel laureate [Luc] Montagnier in which he makes some truly extraordinary claims.” Is the “memory of water” back?
- Dolly the cloned sheep — and her telomeres — come under some scrutiny.
- Commenters raise questions about figures in a paper about melanoma.
- An image in a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) paper “seem OK” to a commenter.
Oh dear, Gerry Melino, the author of the PNAS paper under discussion (and several other, as found by PubPeer users) is not only a renowned cancer scientist, but also “Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Cell Death and Differentiation”. What are we to think if the numerous allegations on PubPeer are correct?
The “extraordinary claims” are apparently supported by a low-resolution screenshot from microsoft XP… I also loved the very informative schematic figure (coil-tube-amplifier-computer), it was definitely needed to understand how the experimental “setup” works.
Orac had some opinions on that study at the time:
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2011/01/14/the-nobel-disease-meets-dna-teleportatio/