By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts 28.03.2025 – a sexual harassers special, a multimillionaire sponsors a sleuth-on-a-leash, COPE officer loses her only paper, how to troll Elsevier, with cheaters in Florida and breakthroughs in degenerative medicine in Japan and USA.
“What is the threshold to distinguish between minor and major? What does “the majority of the results and conclusions” mean? ” – Aneurus Inconstans
How many English professors do you need to fake an Ayurvedic COVID-19 trial? At least 6, plus one Purdue Pharma exec!
Schneider Shorts 21.03.2025 – Brazilian Academician who may have second thoughts about awarding PubPeer, what to eat to avoid breast cancer, with Armenian Alzheimer’s vaccines, a litigious fraudster, elusive Belgians, and finally, what German government knew about pandemic origins.
“Read the damn paper and look at the figures before publishing it; it’s not that hard” – Archasia belfragei
Schneider Shorts 14.03.2025 – Fraud and misogyny from Indian scholars, bullies in Germany and in Belgium, first retractions for eyesight and Alzheimer’s researchers, a friendship turned sour over retraction, and finally, an Iranian antisemite sends threats to yours truly!
“Expressions of Concern may be used as an interim notice to flag a potential issue that may be ultimately resolved with another amendment outcome (e.g. retraction or correction) or they may remain as the final outcome in cases where conclusive evidence cannot be obtained. ” – COPE
Schneider Shorts 7.03.2025 – Royal Society salutes Nazi oligarch, Belgian university uses poverty excuse, Chinese surgeons cure Alzheimer’s, with an untrustworthy Italian biotech, a revised correction, circular plagiarism, even more retractions, an erased paper, and finally, with mice turned into mammoths!
“If this book accomplishes anything, it should be to shatter the illusion that Alzheimer’s research is on solid footing and to prompt a long-overdue reckoning in the field. ” – Csaba Szabo
“Those noises have no scientific meanings, suggest nothing, forming no any judgments, and have no any influences on the experimental results. ” – Professor Deng‐Guang Yu
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