By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
“Bob Roskamp, a Sarasota entrepreneur and philanthropist, was getting his biggest kick Thursday from his $5-million gamble on a team of driven University of South Florida researchers who believe they can find the world’s first treatment for Alzheimer’s.”
Schneider Shorts 2.10.2026 – Greek papermiller and industry shill also worked for cocaine mafia, another papermill acquitted by Norwegian authorities, US biotech finds fraud, French entrepreneur on a losing streak, plus other retractions for trachea tranplanters, a trio of European professors, and a Commander of the British Empire.
“Hongji Yan presented four different versions of Figure 9 in the article and during the investigation as the “correct” figure. One version was published in the original article, one version was sent to the journal and published as a correction, and two more versions were shared with the Board”
“research misconduct can occur at any stage of the research process and that there is no requirement for the results or the findings of the research to have been affected. Furthermore, the incorrect images constitute precisely those research results which the authors themselves considered important enough to be presented in scientific articles.” – NPOF
Schneider Shorts 25.09.2026 – husband defends wife from a rabid StereoInvestigator, a Romanian in Stanford makes mice with human brains, Swiss scholars cure stroke, a Frenchman loses first his mentor then his paper while some Italian scholars lose even more papers.
Schneider Shorts 18.09.2026 – nobody is answering in Edinburgh and in Leeds, with a naughty professor in West Virginia, a retirement party in Paris, a lost paper in Strasbourg, some more retractions, and a sexual harasser who ran a Scottish university in Bahrain.
“If there’s someone having a negative impact on science, it is Cofnas, not his critics. ” – Pieter Beck
Schneider Shorts 11.09.2026 – a Spanish Catholic who saw the light, a US billionaire cured his daughter and saved science, a US businessman who talks too much, a Portuguese alcoholic is confirmed in his job, plus retractions for Epstein’s friend and other cheaters.
Schneider Shorts 4.09.2026 – corruption in British cardiology, two cheaters dead but many more remain at Italian university, a drunk pervert ork fails his German university, the mystery of a Japanese twink in California, and why retractions are unsuitable for attractive people.
“What happens when plagiarism is officially confirmed, but correcting the scholarly record becomes structurally impossible?” – Leonid Borysenko
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