We have an update on the case of Olav and Axel Gressner, a father-son (or, in this case, son-father) pair of German liver researchers caught up in a fraud investigation. The inquiry focused on Olav, who left the University of Aachen under a cloud of suspicion. A 2008 research letter on which he was a … Continue reading Update on the Gressner case: Son Olav says he’s the unfairly targeted “bête noire”
Yesterday we reported on a retraction in a European liver journal involving post-acceptance shenanigans by a group of German researchers including a father and son, Axel and Olav Gressner. Well, it turns out there’s a bit more there there. Didier Samuel, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Hepatology, where the team’s letter to the editor was … Continue reading Update: German university investigating authors who retracted caffeine-liver fibrosis letter
Work from a prolific father-son team of liver researchers in Germany has come under scrutiny after accusations that they falsified data in a 2009 letter to the editor that appeared in the Journal of Hepatology. The letter, retracted in the September issue (after an online notice in June), referred to a 2008 article in the … Continue reading Liver spots: Hepatology journal yanks research letter on caffeine-fibrosis link, saying authors falsified data