The perfect MDPI editor
“I know you cannot understand such matters, since you appear to have strong mother-related problems that most likely have denied you of a satisfactory sexual life”, _ Enrico Sciubba, Editor-in-Chief
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 2.05.2025 – A gross negligence is not detectable
Schneider Shorts 2.05.2025 – German ex-university president once again innocent, US ex-university president heads a big company, a Noble Genius awarded, with talking mice, papermills reaching Science, concerns expressed for male bigwigs, and finally, how to escape heart attack while drunk.
Trials and Errors of Martin Gleave
“The magnitude was much greater than we had expected or hoped for,” – Martin Gleave
Schneider Shorts 25.04.2025 – I applaud what you have done for better science
Schneider Shorts 25.04.2025 – a Canadian gynaecologist examines himself, a perpetrator trolls a Science Guardian, with Italian retractions, special rules for special people, and finally, do coffee and chocolate belong in the lab?
Schneider Shorts 18.04.2025 – Enhance quality of life for our growing aging population
Schneider Shorts 18.04.2025 – An oasis of fraud at UCL, Swiss professor wins a coveted medal, Britain’s research integrity chair defended by Wiley, retractions for British scholars and for Nigerian one-man papermill, and the various ways of how silly science can get.
Schneider Shorts 11.04.2025 – Many people’s lives depend on it
Schneider Shorts 11.04.2025 – US neuroscientist still shell-shocked by Italian postdoc’s fraud, a fantasy wolf de-exticted, an expert investigation in Berlin, and with retractions for past and current MD Anderson researchers, a German-Iranian papermiller, and a Mexican victim of persecution.
Obituaries for explosive developments in cancer research
“Michael Waterfield,a key figure in the explosive developments in cancer research in the late twentieth century [….] leaves an enormous legacy, not just in the landscape of cancer therapies which he did so much to transform, but also in the training and promotion of the careers of so many leading scientists”
Schneider Shorts 4.04.2025 – Give people the benefit of the doubt
Schneider Shorts 4.04.2025 – cancer center director in USA and university rector in Austria need to check their papers, Egyptian geniuses recycle a spectrum 12 times, with amazing corrections by ACS and Elsevier, Nazi paper retracted, and finally, a Dutch sexual predator sacked by court order.
Schneider Shorts 28.03.2025 – You can be forgiven even in failure
Schneider Shorts 28.03.2025 – a sexual harassers special, a multimillionaire sponsors a sleuth-on-a-leash, COPE officer loses her only paper, how to troll Elsevier, with cheaters in Florida and breakthroughs in degenerative medicine in Japan and USA.
Ayurvedic nasal drop, dropped
How many English professors do you need to fake an Ayurvedic COVID-19 trial? At least 6, plus one Purdue Pharma exec!
