A highly acclaimed neuroscientist whose work offered hope for many patients with brain injury has fallen from grace.
Prof. Niels Birbaumer, of the Eberhard-Karls University of Tübingen in Germany, came under investigation earlier this year. The probe began after researcher Martin Spüler raised serious concerns over a 2017 paper in PLoS Biology by Ujwal Chaudhary et al. Birbaumer was the senior author.
Now, the Eberhard-Karls University of Tübingen has announced that two neuroscientists have been found to have committed misconduct (h/t). The two offenders are not named, but based on the information given, one is clearly Birbaumer, and the other, I think, is Chaudhary.
