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Is James Cook University a grants machine or a research institute?
James Cook University reviews ex-student's 'fishy' findings, by Graham Lloyd, The Australian
Oona Lonnstedt has been prolific, writing alarming papers on microplastics, acidification, and reef degradation. But her work is starting to look like a trainwreck. One paper has been withdrawn, in another it was "found that Lonnstedt did not have time to undertake the research she claimed." Now Peter Ridd has pointed out that the photos of 50 Lionfish appear to contain a lot less than 50 fish. Images have been flipped, spun or "manipulated" so the same fish appears more than once. This sort of thing is not just "confirmation bias".
James Cook has done what any ambitious, money-hungry grant troughing institute would do, a very slow investigation of allegedly corrupt behaviour and a very quick sacking of the honest researcher who threatens to expose them. Any respectable Science Minister would freeze all grants to James Cook until this situation was resolved and reversed.
Send your thoughts to The Hon Karen Andrews. Contact her here: karen.andrews.mp AT aph.gov.au. There is a crisis in Australian science. Who is going [...]
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