The blog of Raphaël Lévy at Université Sorbonne Paris Nord
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 administratif de Montreuil, 3d chamber, 11 June 2026, no. 2309446). However, taking […]
Update: see also, A loss in court, really? A guest post by Olivier Leclerc. I am now officially a whistle-blower in the legal sense of the term. More importantly, so are others who report scientific misconduct “without direct financial gain and in good faith”. However, that does not entitle me (them) to much protection. That […]
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. The meeting was opened by the director of the French Integrity office, Michel Dubois, and the president of the French Research Evaluation agency (HCERES), Coralie Chevallier, […]
How to establish whether a disputed claim is true or false? This is one of the questions at the centre of the ERC Synergy project NanoBubbles, which studies the barriers to the correction of science. We focus on a controversy in bionanoscience: there are hundreds of scientific articles that report the specific detection of molecules […]
*** 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 University of Twente, IRIT and Ecole des Ponts. The project focuses on how, when and why science fails […]
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. The talk was entitled “Welcome to the PhD games… and may the […]
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 manipulation] by institutions, publishers and funders is typically slow, opaque and inadequate, and is […]
Updated 07/12/2025 with the quote from The Technion and 08/12/2025 with the FlashPoint Therapeutics press release. Three years ago, I asked in a blog post here What do scientific prizes celebrate? It was a reaction to false claims in press releases by the King Faisal Price and Northwestern University announcing the award of the 2023 […]
PNAS did not publish the letter to the Editor I had submitted (and which led to a legal threat against me), but they did request that the authors publish a correction adding some of the references that I had cited in my letter. Eventually a correction was published on the 2nd of August, but as […]