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Author: Leonid Schneider
Independent Science Journalist and Cartoonist.
Formerly molecular cell biologist. My academic CV at: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6204-9470
Schneider Shorts 19.12.2025 – Merry Christmas!
Schneider Shorts 19.12.2025- sleuth wins reward in a lawsuit, an Italian cheater can’t stop lying, with retractions for failed and failing science elites, a Nature expert investigation, and US scholars escaping with corrections.
Schneider Shorts 12.12.2025 – An independent analysis refuting allegations of inappropriate image editing
Schneider Shorts 12.12.2025 – insanity and retractions in Canada, a papermiller in Scotland, an ancient London artwork destroyed, with Belgian geniuses, unusual references, and finally, Elsevier cracks down on papermill fraud.
Professor Grune’s diet of dodgy blots
As German TV asks Tilman Grune what he will eat in the future, I have other questions for him.
Schneider Shorts 5.12.2025 – I write poetry and fiction
Schneider Shorts 5.12.2025 – a young genius in Oxford, a Greek tobacco shill, a Spanish papermiller, retractions for important men and women, including a retracted retraction, glyphosate paper finally gone, and why papermills invent fake Ukrainians
Blame Your Students
“I should have checked these images more closely, but they were intended to be representative images rather than duplications or forgeries of other images.” – Crishan Samuel
Schneider Shorts 28.11.2025 – Virtue-signalling retraction lottery
Schneider Shorts 28.11.2025 – a Good Russian in eastern Germany, a pensioner victimised in New York, with several MDPI retractions for papermillers and Italian bigwigs, interesting corrections, failed proper channels, and finally, even more cancers ended with nanoparticles.
Schneider Shorts 21.11.2025 – New metal-organic framework for the delivery of curcumin
Schneider Shorts 21.11.2025 – with long Shorts about a fountain of youth found in grape seeds, rodents tortured for fake science in Brazil, an Iranian papermill operating from Canada, plus second servings for French couple and a Danish wildlife ecologist.
An expert criticism by fraudsters and antivaxxers: the case of PubPeer
“A concerning trend is the rise of “hyper-skepticism”” – ChatGPT
Schneider Shorts 14.11.2025 – Having all these women around makes it more fun for the men
Schneider Shorts 14.11.2025 – undead vampire is dead, Harvard researcher laments grant loss, BMJ concerned about having been duped, with another Italian cheater, a rascist identity thief, a Hungarian multi-professor, and finally, how Springer Nature and Elsevier fight papermill fraud!
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