Schneider Shorts 16.04.2021
Introducing new For Better Science weekly format: Schneider Shorts
Author: Leonid Schneider
Independent Science Journalist and Cartoonist.
Formerly molecular cell biologist. My academic CV at: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6204-9470
Stefano Mancuso’s Nation of Plants: review of two books
Stefano Mancuso studies neuroscience of plants. I review two of his recent popular science books: “The Incredible Journey of Plants” and “The Nation of Plants”.
The intellectual leaps of Joe Shapiro
Charcoal as COVID-19 therapy? It may sound silly, but there is solid history of data fudging behind it, wandering western blots included!
The End of Twitter
The grass root revolution continues, but I’m not on Twitter anymore.
Get your predatory publishing into PubMed!
How to make an academic career in medicine, a guide for white men and their wives.
Prof Jean Bousquet’s Sauerkraut Therapy
For some reason, Christian Drosten is the most famous COVID-19 scientist of the Charité Berlin medical school. Meanwhile, Professors Jean Bousquet and Torsten Zuberbier found and tested the pandemic cure, and it’s Brassica oleracea!
Steve Jackson and the Moumen Troll
“I take issues of research integrity very seriously and shall of course review the concerns posted on PubPeer to establish whether there are any issues that need to be addressed.” Stephen P Jackson.
The communal misconduct by Zhenhe Suo in Olso
“the Committee believes that when carelessness or scientific dishonesty can be found in so many articles with so many different authors in question, there must be a lack of training and / or lack of control over data handling. The committee therefore believes that it is qualified probability that there has been an institutional system error when it comes to training. The committee believes that good routines for training are a line responsibility and can not only be attributed to group or project manager.”
Die with a smile: antidepressants against COVID-19
“Fluvoxamine could certainly be something you wanna put in the tool chest. ‘Cause it looks as if it has the promise to reduce the likelihood of severe illness.” – Francis Collins, NIH Director.
Didier Raoult fraud: “Je ne regrette rien”
One year on: more fake data, financial fraud and illegal and falsified clinical trials by the chloroquine guru Didier Raoult.
