Plain summary of what happened in CRG, Barcelona

Firing for disobedience from scientific institution: how scientists demand obedience and recognition of their scientific authority, some very certain scientific authority: after having claimed to recognize the scientific authority of his favorite, Director of CRG, Barcelona, Luis Serrano, got refusal (in particular, because his favorite used to concoct data for processing).
But the resistance to filthy data manipulation and concoction was oppressed — inconvenient for them rebel computer scientist was fired.

Here are some notes of a computer scientist's experience (Mar'2016 — Dec'2016) who was very near to get a TBI^*) while working with Maria Lluch, CRG's staff scientist.
The latter has been promoting her scientific career servicing to Luis Serrano, CRG's Director for his private needs, which, however extraneous or ugly it may look like, hands down should not be whoever else's business unless the research integrity and well-being of another persons were drastically affected and put in a shambles.
In previous posts you can see mainly inside description (with the copies of emails and other documents) of the working and firing process performed within the walls of «an international biomedical research institute of excellence» — i.e. CRG, EMBL outstation in Barcelona: the torture of mobbing and lies with yet hardly believable outcome lasted for several months.
(Court hearing was scheduled for the end of Jan, 2018 as this was in Spain, so very apt country for misconduct being unabated).
The only excuse for so direct summary of what happened is that the nature of Maria Lluch-Senar's job at CRG and peculiar success is of no secret within those walls, also due to quite open demonstration of her deep connection, way far to be really intellectual, with her patron accompanied by «the closest person, his right hand, she can fire anyone» (indeed! not to mention full access to CRG director's desktop…), so forth interesting confessions and blatant research misconduct.

It's worth to mention, that all this shame is silently supported and even sponsored with millions of € grants both by EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory) and ERC (European Research Council)

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