By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts 30.06.2023 – Nobelists in need of defence, superconductive fraud vidicated, new fraudsters at MD Anderson in Texas discovered, Alzheimer fraudster gets his own center, an American in Italian fraud gang, with other fraudsters in Italy and their retractions, an MDPI’s expert, and finally, with India’s greatest scholar and his manpower.
“Yup we are being hounded.” – Thomas Südhof
From mammoths to eugenics to anti-aging scams: god-impersonator George Church knows how to make money with bullshit.
Schneider Shorts 23.06.2023 – Italian killer surgeon gets sentenced to 2.5 years in Sweden, Harvard’s honesty expert exposed as fraudster, German university refuses to investigate papermiller, with ACS being naughty again, anti-aging breakthroughs in MDPI, and finally, an accidental sickness in Wuhan in November 2019.
“…the best evidence for the existence of VSELs is the dismal failure of all the other much-vaunted stem-cell therapies to deliver on their promises. Since it is axiomatic that some stem-cell therapy must work, the successful cell-types must be the ones that haven’t been tried yet, which leaves VSELs.”- Smut Clyde
“Dr. Scheibe presented to me the original blots […]. I think that’s pretty convincing.”
Schneider Shorts 16.06.2023 – an evaluation in Strasbourg finds a flyer, trash science from Rome, trash science from Harvard, cures for Long COVID and old age, with a baroque art sale, Latvian cooking recipes, informative Frontiers retractions, and finally, the mystery of who blew up the dam.
“The University of Messina was, in short, a good business that appealed to many, including organized crime on both sides of the Strait of Messina.” – Aneurus Inconstans
Schneider Shorts 9.06.2023 – Italy’s greatest scholar dedicates his life to training Asian papermillers, concern for Texas fraudster, stem cell embarrassment, retraction a decade delayed, with more retractions, papermill promo, and finally, Germany’s pesticide shill with whitewashed PubPeer record.
Schneider Shorts 2.06.2023 – how cancer is cured at Stanford and Harvard, mass retractions at Hindawi journal, tricks for life extention, chocolate for Alzheimer’s, with a polluted conference, a papermilling Belgian, failed and successful corrections, and a dirty old man’s wild trial.
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