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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Klaas van Dijk" data-source="post: 3611156" data-attributes="member: 115771"><s> </s><s>Copy/pasted from a recent update at <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/project/Retracting-fraudulent-articles-on-the-breeding-biology-of-the-Basra-Reed-Warbler-Acrocephalus-griseldis" target="_blank">https://www.researchgate.net/project/Retracting-fraudulent-articles-on-the-breeding-biology-of-the-Basra-Reed-Warbler-Acrocephalus-griseldis</a> :</s><s></s><s>Nobel laureate Randy Schekman is urging Taylor & Francis to retract the fraudulent study on the Basra Reed Warbler</s><s></s><s>"It is listed in my comment of 1 August 2017 [at <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/project/Retracting-fraudulent-articles-on-the-breeding-biology-of-the-Basra-Reed-Warbler-Acrocephalus-griseldis" target="_blank">https://www.researchgate.net/project/Retracting-fraudulent-articles-on-the-breeding-biology-of-the-Basra-Reed-Warbler-Acrocephalus-griseldis</a>] that Mark Patterson, the Executive Director of the journal eLife <a href="https://elifesciences.org" target="_blank">https://elifesciences.org</a> , states that Taylor & Francis (TF) must retract both fraudulent articles on the Basra Reed Warbler (Al-Sheikhly et al. 2013, 2015), and as soon as possible, because he has established that both contain fabricated and/or falsified data. It is also listed in this comment of 1 August 2017 that OASPA is refusing to punish TF for the refusal to retract this fraudulent study. </s><s></s><s>Mark Patterson is one of the members of the board of OASPA and therefore co-responsible and co-accountable for the refusal until now of OASPA to start with punishing member TF for their persistent refusal to retract this fraudulent study. ELife is a high profile open access journal with an extensive list of high-profile ecologists as editors, see <a href="https://elifesciences.org/about/people/ecology" target="_blank">https://elifesciences.org/about/people/ecology</a> Professor Randy Schekman, a Nobel laureate, is Editor-in-chief of this journal. </s><s></s><s>Mark Patterson did not respond on an email of 5 August 2017 with concerns about this refusal of OASPA to start with punishing TF. I have therefore contacted professor Schekman on 15 August 2017 about this issue. This email was sent in cc to several members of the staff of eLife, including Mark Patterson. I have informed professor Schekman about my concerns and proposed professor Schekman to communicate with him and with others at eLife about the findings in <a href="https://www.academia.edu/33827046" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/33827046</a> through the common accepted practice within the field of publication ethics of 'tacit approval within a fixed period of time'. Until now only two out-of-office auto-replies were received. So professor Schekman and publisher eLife do not object -until now- to communicate with me through the concept of tacit approval within a fixed period of time about the findings in <a href="https://www.academia.edu/33827046" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/33827046</a></s><s></s><s>A follow-up e-mail about this issue was sent to professor Schekman on 27 August 2017. This email was also sent to all at <a href="https://elifesciences.org/about/people/ecology" target="_blank">https://elifesciences.org/about/people/ecology</a> and to members of the staff of publisher eLife (including Mark Patterson). Until now only several out-of-office auto-replies were received. There is no information that professor Schekman, and/or all others at <a href="https://elifesciences.org/about/people/ecology" target="_blank">https://elifesciences.org/about/people/ecology</a>, are simultaneously sick and/or on leave and/or for a prolonged period of time at a site without access to the internet. So professor Schekman and publisher eLife once again do not object to communicate with me about the main findings of <a href="https://www.academia.edu/33827046" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/33827046</a> through the concept of tacit approval within a fixed period of time.</s><s></s><s>I state in this e-mail of 27 August 2017 that I have concluded that "also you, Nobel laureate professor Randy Schekman and Editor-in-Chief of the journal eLife, fully support all findings of <a href="https://www.academia.edu/33827046" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/33827046</a> , and that therefore also you, Nobel laureate professor Randy Schekman and Editor-in-Chief of the journal eLife, is urging Editor-in-Chief Dr. Max Kasparek and publisher TF to retract the fraudulent study on the breeding biology of the Basra Reed Warbler (Al-Sheikhly et al. 2013, 2015), and as soon as possible, because Al-Sheikhly et al. (2013, 2015) contain fabricated and/or falsified data, and that this retraction is necessary to prevent a further contamination of the scientific body of knowledge."</s><s></s><s>There is until now no one from the staff of publisher eLife and from any of the high-profile ecologists at <a href="https://elifesciences.org/about/people/ecology" target="_blank">https://elifesciences.org/about/people/ecology</a> who has rebutted / refutes this view and who has informed me that there are objections to post a comment about this topic at ResearchGate. I have therefore concluded that it is correct to state that also 'Nobel laureate Randy Schekman is urging Taylor & Francis to retract the fraudulent study on the breeding biology of the Basra Reed Warbler'. This new development is once again a major set-back for both TF and Editor-in-Chief Dr. Max Kasparek of 'Zoology in the Middle East', the journal which published the fraudulent study. Comments are, as always, highly welcome."</s><s></s><s>Please don't hesitate to contact Dr. Max Kasparek about this new development (kasparek AT t-online.de).</s></blockquote>

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