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Burt! This bloke won’t Kaggle!
“This is unedifying but illustrative on so many levels of how quickly papermills have parasitised the Open Science paradigm and strip-mined all its resources. It also illustrates how quickly the incantatory Worship Words of Machine Learning shut down the critical faculties of reviewers when included in a manuscript, convincing them that its ludicrous claims are merely restatements of what they already know.” – Smut Clyde
Schneider Shorts 5.06.2026 – Thanks for the important work that you do
Schneider Shorts 5.06.2026 – a cancer center in USA loses director, russia gains an Italian, Belgium lucky to have a russian, Spanish star and his lawyer celebrate victory, a British pensioner suffers a retraction, and so does a German professor, and finally, can we really trust vaccines from Wuhan?
Mind over Antibody
“I considered whether I should email Abcam and ask them to change the name of the ab51243 antibody on their website to reduce confusion, but […] I will instead continue to watch the carnage, perhaps it has only just started!” – Sholto David
Schneider Shorts 29.05.2026 – Everything can be achieved with extremely hard work
Schneider Shorts 29.052026 – German universities struggle with papermill prodigies, a Polish rector removed for sexual harassment, American antivax papers removed, Serbian Lieutenant Colonel fights retractions, confusing PubPeer moderation, and finally, how to cure Parkinson’s with graphene and cranberries.
Graphyne Chronicles
“Black crap formed in all cases. None of it was graphyne. None of it contained any detectable sp¹ carbons” – Valentin Rodionov
Schneider Shorts 22.05.2026 – See them all moving around in their artificial eggs
Schneider Shorts 22.95.2026 – an obituary for great Italian cancer researcher, Thermo Fisher being Unscientific, Polish patriots fight russian agents, a Thai papermiller reinvents himself, with corrections and concerns, with Korean magnetism in genetics, and finally, beware of Colossal eggs hatching!
The Kingdom of Rui Reis
“I think this story shows the debacle and corruption of entire research fields that become just a very expensive show of bad science-fiction. ” – Carabus Maleki
Schneider Shorts 15.05.2026 – Read the statement on the duties of journalists and take it seriously!
Schneider Shorts 15.05.2026 – Switzerland shocked to learn the whistleblower was right, German newspaper restores sex abuse story one quack sued against, a German champion of publication ethics corrects his paper, don’t mess with Texas science (coffee included!), and finally, how almost everyone fell for a fake gold medal from a fake institute.
The Galdiero Clan
“Scientific works must be carefully reviewed, assessed, and, if necessary, corrected at the time of submission and publication. Attempting to re-evaluate articles many years later represents an unfair practice toward the authors ” – a member of the Galdiero Clan.
Schneider Shorts 8.05.2026 – Incredible future is now becoming reality
Schneider Shorts 8.05.2026 – from anti-aging obituary in USA to anti-aging rage in russia, a whistleblower achieves a retraction, a society journal gives up, a pharma company burns $4 billion, AI slop at highest level, and finally, does researching alcohol lead to double vision?
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