This is part 3 of a series describing papers from the Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée-Infection (IHUMI or IHU) and Aix-Marseille Université (AMU) institutions in Marseille, France, with potential problems.

In Part 1, I listed papers with image concerns. In Part 2, I focused on a set of papers describing many different research projects on homeless people specimens — all run under the same IRB approval number.

In this post, we will take a look at IHU/AMU papers describing samples obtained from African countries. Many of these lack wording on ethical approval by the local authorities, and all of these lack authors from these countries. This type of research might fall under the definition of neo-colonial science.

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