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In April 2009, Science retracted an article that described a technology that the authors had modestly called “MAGIC” for “MAGnetism-based Interaction Capture”.

This is a guest post by Olivier Leclerc, CNRS senior researcher, Centre de Théorie et Analyse du Droit It is only natural that Raphaël Lévy should feel he has lost in court, given that his case was dismissed by the administrative tribunal (Tribunal admini…

Update: see also, A loss in court, really?

I attended last Friday the colloquium of the French Research Integrity Office which took place in the impressive and solemn settings of the Palais du Luxembourg, the French Senate.

How to establish whether a disputed claim is true or false?

*** PLEASE share this job advert *** Scientific context: The ERC Synergy NanoBubbles project is led by researchers from the Universities of Sorbonne Paris Nord, Maastricht, Grenoble-Alpes and Radboud, in collaboration with researchers from the CNRS, the U…

Here is a short post to share some information about a talk I gave last week, for the third consecutive year, to over 200 new PhD students (and their supervisors) at the Welcome Day for new entrants 2025-2026 of the BioSPC doctoral School.

See no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil See also the last paragraph of my previous post for a comment on the too slow and inappropriate response of CNRS and université of Lille to this case.

In March 2023, Dorothy Bishop and sixteen other internationally recognised leaders in the field of scientific integrity took the unusual step of sending an open letter to the CEO of CNRS to highlight that “the response [to unambiguous evidence of data man…

Updated 07/12/2025 with the quote from The Technion and 08/12/2025 with the FlashPoint Therapeutics press release.