Björn Brembs

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The matter of a journal's reputation

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Analysis Science Biocon Björn Brembs COVID-19 cytokine release syndrome Dinesh Thakur Drug Controller General of India Itolizumab Jammi Nagaraj Rao journal impact factor Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Newslaundry phase II clinical trials phase III clinical trials prestige journals prestigious journals reputed journals Seema Ahuja Sundar Ramanan The Telegraph

Apparently (and surprisingly) The Telegraph didn’t allow Dinesh Thakur to respond to an article by Biocon employee Sundar Ramanan, in which Ramanan deems Thakur’s article about the claims to efficacy…

To see faces where there are none

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Science arXiv Björn Brembs conspiracy theories Elisabeth Bik image manipulation impact factor Ingelfinger rule journal rank Nature Medicine Ohio State University open knowledge pareidolia peer review preprints research fraud William Romoser

This week in "neither university press offices nor prestigious journals know what they're doing": a professor emeritus at Ohio University who claimed he had evidence of life on Mars, and…