Set the Controls for the Heart of the Earth
“Herndon’s alternative geoscience is not winning many converts, […] he features here at For Better Science mainly so that when RFK Jr appoints him to the Chemtrail Task Force” – Smut Clyde
Month: April 2026
Schneider Shorts 24.04.2026 – Competence and experience put to good use
Schneider Shorts 24.04.2026 – Sweden special with two misconduct findings and proof there’s a life after those, an Italian gynecologist who keeps losing papers, with Nature’s failed investigation and a stem cell nasal spray from Texas to cure everything!
Hirota’s Hypoxic Fraud sanctioned in Japan
Kiichi Hirota has been found guilty of research fraud in Japan. He was previously involved in Gregg Semenza’s Nobel Prize discovery of HIF gene. Semenza has 15 retractions, and the work of his Nobel co-recipients isn’t entirely kosher either.
Schneider Shorts 17.04.2026 – Saving the planet never tasted this good
Schneider Shorts 17.04.2026 – an anti-aging clinical trial with bonus eye-cancer, a papermiller turns to full-time mushrooming, an artist-scientist educates a youngster, German and Canadian cancer researchers unconcerned, retractions in Italy and Poland, Springer Nature changes history, and finally, a shrimp virus turns people blind!
Galina’s fateful visit to Ulm
Three whitewashings and a misconduct finding for Galina Selivanova
Schneider Shorts 10.04.2026 – Unconventional thinking and pioneering solutions
Schneider Shorts 10.04.2026 – a cheater psychologist sacked in The Netherlands, Italian boys investigated themselves, with an Indian secret to a Polish career, Portuguese anti-aging, retractions in Brazil and Turkey, and with Texas Gibbons!
The Trivedi Effect
“Mahendrakumar Trivedi does not need a Potion to make you fatter and more delicious; his psychic emanations are enough.”- Smut Clyde
Schneider Shorts 3.04.2026 – The posts aren’t mine, and I don’t read them
Schneider Shorts 3.04.2026 – a sexual harasser sacked in Singapore, BMJ completes a rescue mission, how to honour dead friends, with bad liver research in New York, , a victim of ghosting, unaffected conclusions despite irreproducible results, and finally, you won’t believe that AI slop in Elsevier.
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