A Yale fossil
As a Rainmaker friend of Richard Flavell once said many times, “What is the problem here?”
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 22.11.2024 – Harassed and threatened by pseudoscientists
Schneider Shorts 22.11.2024 – a witch-hunter’s obituary, a Nobelist awarded and awarding, a dirty old man protected in Marseille, mTORman funded in Czechia, a Polish mayor arrested, a superconductor wunderkind sacked, with Austro-Romanian papermilling, and retractions for various important men.
Schneider Shorts 15.11.2024 – Not a clinical research article with new data
Schneider Shorts 15.11.2024 – trouble in elite Canadian lab, leadership chaos at IEEE, cancer charity money put to good use in Italy, one Elsevier journal untouchable, another cleaned from papermillers, with a Polish professor betrayed, NIH fraudster’s first retractions, and finally, Patricia Murray vs stem cell clinics!
Jan and Ricky, two blind mouse ophthalmologists
“I am the authorised spokesperson on this matter” – Prof Jan Provis, emerita dean
The Pestilence of Pestell
Richard Pestell MB, BS, MD, PhD, FACP, FRACP. MBA, FRCP, FRSB, AO is the most dashing doctor a girl or a boy can ever dream of. What luck for Michael Lisanti to have been invited for a ride!
Schneider Shorts 8.11.2024 – Mission to save millions of lives
Schneider Shorts 8.11.2024 – German scholars save children from cancer, a German professor separates fraud from mistakes, Pakistani scholar saves millions in England, with a Belgian research fraud investigator, American senolytics, academic kakistokracy in Poland, silly drawings passed off as spectra, and finally, on Trump and fascist America.
Schneider Shorts 1.11.2024 – Let us know if you have any questions
Schneider Shorts 1.11.2024 – more fictions from an old crook, society journals teach sleuth good science, Scottish investigation causes retraction, Scottish papermiller goes to China, hazardous waste in Italy, amazing achievements of transplant surgeons, and finally, editorial dedicated to those murdered by retractions.
Schneider Shorts 25.10.2024 – All those errors occurred inadvertently
Schneider Shorts 25.10.2024 – successful papermilling in Canada and Germany, less successful papermilling in Spain and Ukraine, an open letter to Springer, UK Biobank letting bad guys in, with a dead psychologist, a Spanish cancer warrior in France, an evaporated water institute, haggling Vietnamese, and finally, why coffee and alcohol are good news.
Cancer at Charité
New season of the popular German TV series, ” Charité”, this time set in the early 21st century! Will Jürgen ever become professor? Will Bernd ever allow science to self-correct? Will Christoph ever catch his mechanical pursuer?
On Freedom by Timothy Snyder, book review
This is my review of the new book by the historian Timothy Snyder, “On Freedom”.
For Better Science 