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Schneider Shorts 26.04.2024 – Deeply concerning and unacceptable
Schneider Shorts 26.04.2024 – celebrity retraction in Science, An Italian papermiller under investigation in Norway, papermillers get own journal, an English professor asks for privacy, with publishers misbehaving, retraction retracted, and an Australian university finally finding out who faked everything.
Capybara’s Adventures in Medicinal Chemistry
“Every now and again, it is a good idea to open the door of the clown car that is MD Anderson, and see who climbs out. Today is the turn of Kapil N. Bhalla. If you say his name quickly, it sounds a bit like “capybara”” – Sholto David
Oh what Botangled web we weave
“Would it be irresponsible to speculate that all these multiple sets of images being handed around from paper to paper all belong to a papermill? An artisanal, bespoke fabrication studio, catering to a select group of clients? It would be irresponsible not to speculate!” – Smut Clyde
Schneider Shorts 19.04.2024 – Endemic diffusion of fraudulent research
Schneider Shorts 19.04.2024 – Nobelist defended by fellow German man, two progeny sons of successful fathers, retractions for various Italian bigwigs, papermill fraud professionally corrected, with a neuroscience breakthrough only few people can master, censorship at a Dutch university, and finally, how to have more sex with Frontiers.
Gardening goats and external papermills in Tübingen
One shooting and one falling star of University Clinic Tübingen. Meet the research ethics champion Julia Skokowa and the eternally affiliated Renaissance Man Reza Akhavan-Sigari,
Karimipour Saga III: All roads lead to Rome
“The academic career of D’Orazio is tightly coupled to that of Karimipour since she hosted him at Sapienza. Of the 57 papers she declared authorship for, 25 (44%) are published together with Karimipour.” – Maarten van Kmapen
Schneider Shorts 12.04.2024 – I would like to thank all my mentors
Schneider Shorts 12.04.2024 – three Shorts only this time, with a superconductive fraudster who lied about everything, a role model for WomenInSTEM in UK, and a sexual harasser first protected, then sacked by UN research institute.
Karimipour Saga II: Vietnamese Bauhaus
“[Timon Rabczuk] is happily accepting 2 million euro of European money, whilst at the same time optimizing his return-on-investment on Vietnamese affiliation scam and cashing in on his ‘highly cited researcher’ accolades by also posing as King Saud researcher.” – Maarten van Kampen
Schneider Shorts 5.04.2024 – Before the current atmosphere of prosecution
Schneider Shorts 5.04.2024 – angry old Nobelist hounded again, one German professor whitewashed, another told to find new friends, Iranian student in Finland admits buying authorships, Polish vice-rector brings papermilling home, more retractions for Italian ex-rector, and finally, with an obituary to anti-aging researcher.
Karimipour Saga I: Setting Boundaries
“The business of selling authorships and citations needs a steady supply of paper-shaped vehicles. It is most efficient to produce these in assembly lines that focus on a narrow topic.” – Maarten van Kampen
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