By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
“…my suspicion is that academia is much more haunted by power abuse and structures of fear than most other systems. […] these conditions put a pressure on otherwise morally functioning human beings and suddenly “research theft” and power abuse become part of the invisible academic culture.” – Maria Toft
Schneider Shorts 25.08.2023 – a Nobelist opens an anti-aging business, a journal remains evil under new leadership, with retractions for former ERC president, an Oz bully and other fraudsters, embarrassing corrections or inactions elsewhere, frontiers in communism, and finally, a victim of clinical abuse releases documentary.
“the entire dramatis personae seem to have crawled out of our man’s sock drawer, and the page-count of Synthetic Communications would be grievously impoverished without his contributions, whether direct or uncredited.”- Smut Clyde
Schneider Shorts 18.08.2023 – Australian university outsources faculty affairs to Elsevier, Elsevier editor reports sleuth for misconduct, Mexican fraudster’s post-mortem retractions, more retractions in Dresden, with lying russians, Vicker’s Curse striking twice, and finally, Nobelist and struck-off dentist sell business for many millions.
“Dear colleagues, scientists, check your lab members’ raw data, publications, and dissertations even more thoroughly than before to protect scientific ethics and data integrity and maintain trust in science!” – Ingrid Herr
Schneider Shorts 11.08.2023 – a science superstar corrects a paper, Royal Society of Chemistry corrects an even better paper, a whistleblower acquitted, a cheater whitewashed, with Hindawi mass-retractions, duped MIT investors, and finally, a wrong editor to solve fraud issues.
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Schneider Shorts 4.08.2023 – Royal Academy terrorizing critic of St Carlos of Oviedo, litigious honesty experts proven as total frauds, brain disorders and bodybuilding, with spaghetti tumours, bullying and harassment, several retractions (one 22 years delayed), and finally, an Italian mentee of US bigwig informs about correct thinking.
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