By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts 29.09.2023 – an Egyptian cheater wiped out, superconductive fraud to be retracted again, editors finding nothing out of order, with a Mexican Photoshop artist, another dodgy correction, and finally, with eugenic, pardon, genetic evidence for segregated schools.
“together with my colleagues we are actively analyzing the points raised on pubpeer.” – Claudio Schneider
“we will evaluate Pubpeer comments” – Giannino Del Sal
“If, within the aforementioned 15 days, you have not proceeded to make the retraction I am requesting, this corporation will consider itself free to take any legal actions necessary under the law.” – Jesus Maria Sanz Serna, President
Schneider Shorts 22.08.2023 – Italian health minister not worried, Argentinian researchers going silent, Elsevier issuing amazing corrections, EMBO Press issuing inaction, and an MDPI Jesus declaring corrections a sin.
“[Taurine’s] exact biological role is unclear, which is why Parames Sil and his students decided that it must be an antioxidant, and therefore the ideal treatment for cadmium- or arsenic-poisoning.” – Smut Clyde
“What exactly will Lash and Elsevier do with these 115 problematic papers? I can only expect a painfully inadequate response.” – Sholto David
Schneider Shorts 15.09.2023 – officially innocent scientists in Germany, USA and Sweden, Italian etnobotanist befriends Indian papermill, Harvard to sack first professor, with a successful and a failed biotech, a computer conspiring against editors, and finally, how Nature invented the climate change.
“The board’s conclusion is therefore that the deviations regarding figure 2b and 2c in article 1 constitute serious deviations from good research practice”
“One could argue that the Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences itself represents a “severe abuse of the scientific publishing system”. However, with the support of two of the world’s worst institutions (Elsevier AND the Saudi kleptocracy) I’m sure there will be no end in sight.” – Sholto David
Schneider Shorts of 8.09.2023 – a German party has science on its side, a retired fraudster sanctioned by ORI, a journal scrutinised, putin’s daughter publishes in MDPI, with high- and low-profile retractions, an Israeli-super-genius, brain hacks, and finally, why russo-iranian papermillers are false friends.
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