Decline and Fall
“Gather round the campfire, everyone, while Uncle Smut regales you with another blood-chilling, spine-curdling tale… this time, about psychologists not sciencing properly.” – Smut Clyde
Month: October 2024
The Incorrigible Elsevier
“I woke up seeing Elsevier’s giant middle finger in front of my face.” – Mu Yang
Schneider Shorts 25.10.2024 – All those errors occurred inadvertently
Schneider Shorts 25.10.2024 – successful papermilling in Canada and Germany, less successful papermilling in Spain and Ukraine, an open letter to Springer, UK Biobank letting bad guys in, with a dead psychologist, a Spanish cancer warrior in France, an evaporated water institute, haggling Vietnamese, and finally, why coffee and alcohol are good news.
Cancer at Charité
New season of the popular German TV series, ” Charité”, this time set in the early 21st century! Will Jürgen ever become professor? Will Bernd ever allow science to self-correct? Will Christoph ever catch his mechanical pursuer?
On Freedom by Timothy Snyder, book review
This is my review of the new book by the historian Timothy Snyder, “On Freedom”.
Schneider Shorts 18.10.2024 – Spamming without any embargo
Schneider Shorts 18.10.2024 – obituary for one of the few upright academics, horrid abuse by Dutch archaeologist revealed in lawsuit, MDPI causes death of Romanian employee, a society publisher has enough of pesky sleuths, big alpha males retract papers, and finally, with hyperbaric oxygen scam in UK.
All you zombies
“Personally I prefer cats to humans because they are little furry psychopaths so we are on the same wavelength.” – Smut Clyde
Carlos Cordon-Cardo and Friends
The Schneider Rule teaches that if you wish to meet many science cheaters you must follow one of them.
Schneider Shorts 11.10.2024 – Tokens of scientific legitimacy
Schneider Shorts 11.10.2024 – Cancer cures and Nobel Prize special with a British and a German businessman selling vaccine therapy, two oncology professors with fake figures, plus a Hungarian papermiller, and the real cause and cure for Alzheimer’s.
Cerebrolysin: Sharmas, Masliah, and EVER Pharma
“Poking around PubMed (Dysdera the spider is always on the hunt for new hornet’s nests) [..], I came across one image in two papers by Eliezer Masliah. […] By a conservative count, I contributed to about 160 out of 300 slides in the final dossier” – Mu Yang
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