One PI =One R01 grant.

The great economic crisis in the Western world has affected the academic and research institutions.  One of the major funding agencies NIH has seen effective funding cut that has translated Continue reading →

Scientific Research: A Ponzi Scheme.

Recently, a friend and colleague blurted out, “Man, academic scientific research is a Ponzi scheme”.  At first I laughed at this but soon I realized his point of view.  My Continue reading →

Impact Factor: Who are you bullshitting?

At the lunch table, I was thinking of an experiment when my attention turned to a colleague whose paper was recently rejected by a medium caliber (read impact factor) journal Continue reading →

Technician or Postdoc?

Postdocs are the slaves of the modern ‘Science Plantations’.  If you look carefully, some cases of horrible treatments of the postdocs may just qualify to be the cases of human Continue reading →

Should Scientific Misconduct be Criminalized?

It has been a while since the last post.  It was not a ‘mysterious disappearance’.  No, I have not been manhandled or killed.  Not yet. I noticed an article (click Continue reading →

Scamming the Antibody.

Has anyone noticed that suddenly there is a mushrooming growth of companies offering antibodies. Anything you can think of, protein, DNA, acetylation, phosphorylation, methylation- nothing is sacred anymore. All the Continue reading →

Scientific misconduct: A prick-ly issue of gutless scientists.

Data forgery is a frikkin troublesome issue in scientific research.  It is the same story every time:  ”The damned post-doc fucked up the data!  We are retracting the paper although Continue reading →