Tiziana Metitieri @timetit@qoto.org

"... a high school student working in UC Davis Chemistry professor Ting Guo’s lab in 2010 alleged in a police report filed in 2018 that she was sexually assaulted by him multiple times. In 2020, she filed a lawsuit against Professor Guo and The Board of Regents of the University of California, Davis. UC Davis continued to allow Professor Guo access to high school students via the Youth Scholars Program even after finding out about the serious allegations against him. Recently, websites of the Youth Scholars Program have been altered or deleted to remove any evidence showing that Professor Guo was ever a mentor in the program.

How many more such cases are there that have not see the light of day because evidence was more effectively tampered with? How many universities are wiping their records to hide evidence of their negligence in protecting students? How many more women must suffer? Will we ever see the end?"

Ting Guo, sexual assault allegations, and the UC Davis Young Scholars Program | Bits of DNA https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2023/01/12/ting-guo-sexual-assault-allegations-and-the-uc-davis-young-scholars-program/

"Clinicians should be aware that motor impairment in childhood can reflect neurodevelopmental vulnerability to psychosis. Our findings contribute to the identification of early risk markers for severe mental illness"

Impaired motor development in children with familial high risk of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder and the association with psychotic experiences: a 4-year Danish observational follow-up study - The Lancet Psychiatry https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(22)00402-3/fulltext

Sara e Yusra Mardini, le protagoniste di The Swimmers:

“We tried to cross, we tried to survive. We just wanted to live in peace again after we crossed"

Sara Mardini: “It has been ongoing for 4 years. I am banned from Greece so I have to wait for permission to be granted to return. If they allow me to testify then I will go to court on the 10th of January.” Human Rights Watch has categorically refuted the charges, supporting her innocence by releasing a statement saying that “The slipshod investigation and absurd charges, including espionage, against people engaged in lifesaving work, reek of politically motivated prosecution.” Amnesty International has called them “unfair and baseless."

Sisters Sara and Yusra Mardini On The Swimmers, Survival, and Their Syrian Roots | Harper's Bazaar Arabia https://www.harpersbazaararabia.com/hbanews/sisters-sara-and-yusra-mardini-on-the-swimmers-survival-and-their-syrian-roots

non c'è da essere scienziati/e per essere whistleblower e intercettare frodi ma di certo, allo stato attuale di fabbricazione di dati e arroccamento con silenziamento da parte di chi dirige riviste scientifiche, si rischia di essere portati/e in tribunale:
una raccolta di esempi molto recenti nell'articolo di Alexander Trevelyan

"What has risen to the fore over the last few years in these fields is not only a replication crisis, but also a fabrication crisis. It’s a crisis that peer review—or editorial review, for that matter—currently appears utterly incapable of surmounting."

"The secrecy and deference by journal editors cultivates a culture of hesitation and silence; why risk upsetting the nasty investors and putting yourself at risk of lawsuit when there’s no discernible evidence that anything will come of it?"

https://ajtrev.substack.com/p/begone-good-faith

I am running into a new year

i am running into a new year
and the old years blow back
like a wind
that i catch in my hair
like strong fingers like
all my old promises and
it will be hard to let go
of what i said to myself
about myself
when i was sixteen and
twentysix and thirtysix
even thirtysix but
i am running into a new year
and i beg what i love and
i leave to forgive me

Lucille Clifton

#WomensPoetry #NewYear