By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts of 25.02.2022 – with lots of advice on life extension and exercise, featuring an anti-Hobbit contrarian on meat diet, a sexual harasser’s academic family, a peculiar COVID-19 cure from Japan, new trouble for a dirty old man in Marseille, and other toxic men of science.
A personal blog on current events.
“I just want to cry right now. I cannot fight this corruption by myself. ” – Elisabeth Bik
Gather round children, and hear a fairy tale from the golden age of degenerative medicine.
Schneider Shorts of 18.02.2022 – fraudster psychologist rehabilitated in Dresden, American dark money conspiracy behind oleandrin, tech billionaire Musk pays to torture monkeys, faecal horoscopes in MDPI, how to join a citation ring, another coffee, and how Putin hides from germs in a pandemic bubble.
The part of the fraud affair not included on Retraction Watch
Schneider Shorts 11.02.2022 – Farewell to a racist and to an antivax homeopath, lame mice walking and other breakthroughs by Israeli Scientists, return of vitamin D and ivermectin, how to treat brain disorders with senolytics, supplements and sh*t, plus President’s science czar discovers one shouldn’t bully outside of academia, and anthropologists congratulate Harvard peer on over 40 years of sexual harassment.
Bad luck in cancer research?
Cancer research giant Joan Massagué has no time to correct his old papers.
Schneider Shorts 4.02.2022 – great men of science under attack wherever one looks, British doctors had fun with coronavirus, plus saving the climate with Arctic Elephants, saving billionaires from old age, and why saving a violent gormless crook is an ungrateful task.
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