Boris Cvek
@boriscvek.bsky.social
I am a scientist, a philosopher and a publicist. My main scientific topic is the repurposing of disulfiram for cancer. Here I want to show how sloppy science, paper by paper, makes disulfiram look like a cure-all.
Disulfiram is presented in many scientific papers as a new incarnation of a panacea. Of course it is not. What is the problem? The abuse of its sheer promiscuity to produce more and more misleading scientific papers.
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The Promiscuity of Disulfiram in Medicinal Research
Recent efforts to repurpose disulfiram, a drug used in alcohol-aversion therapy for decades, for other diseases suggest the molecule is almost an in vitro panacea: it seems to be effective against var...
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January 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Disulfiram is presented in many scientific papers as a new incarnation of a panacea. Of course it is not. What is the problem? The abuse of its sheer promiscuity to produce more and more misleading scientific papers.
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....