Portrait of Sir Philip Cohen’s Family
Sir Philip and Lady Tricia Cohen, and their heir Dario Alessi, plus other first and second generation offspring. A Scottish soap opera!
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 3.01.2025 – A flagship of science on the entire continent and in the whole world
Schneider Shorts 3.01.2025 – a Nobelist who never cared about money is dead, a board certified dermatopathologist fights hybrid attacks, with a russian papermiller in Kazakhstan, salami publishing, an unexpected retraction for a German biotech, and finally, with the most shameless corrections so far.
Schneider Shorts 27.12.2024 – Happy New Year (with MDPI)!
Schneider Shorts 27.12.2024 – Most-read articles of 2024, on dangers of social media, universities in Ireland and Czechia educating sleuths about fraud, naughty editors at Elsevier, a russian ork in USA disposes partner and two papers, more retractions for YouTube couple, and finally, Germany’s New Year resolutions which involve MDPI!
Schneider Shorts 20.12.2024 – A Christmas Carroll
Schneider Shorts 20.12.2024 – dirty old man now harmless enough to retract THAT paper, editors on a stealth mission, with an Italian chatbot, a Czech rector papermilling, a second investigation in Scotland, some crazy citation farming, and a sharp-eyed ophthalmology editor threatening sleuth with “repercussions”.
Nobelium Bilalski, a Gdansk papermiller
“To date, he has authored over 700 peer-reviewed articles, 150 book chapters, 25 edited books, and 10 editorial-type scientific articles in various areas of Science and Engineering. Dr. Bilal has a h-index of 94 with 34 000 citations (Google Scholar).”
Schneider Shorts 13.12.2024 – Most lying, deceiving person in the world
Schneider Shorts 13.12.2024 – anti-aging scammers report pushy competitor to the media, an embattled biotech gets its former executive back after lawsuit, plus a bunch of retractions including five for Sicilian ex-rector, and two for already corrected papers by Israeli Scientists.
Issues of global relevance
“I like ImageTwin, but seeing things with just eyes is like hand-to-hand combat….” – Mu Yang
Schneider Shorts 6.12.2024 – An important step towards addressing UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
Schneider Shorts 6.12.2024 – a family business with pelvic implants, whitewashing in France, NIH sabotaged from inside, fraud funded in Australia, with Iranian papermills, unethical trials in Sweden, US Congress on COVID origins, and finally, how cannabis consume causes fake data and chocolate avoidance causes diabetes.
Martin Birchall, Paolo De Coppi, and other clowns of UCL’s degenerative medicine
Several years ago, UCL investigated the Macchiarini affair and found their surgeon Martin Birchall was not only innocent, but also entitled to more money and more patients to experiment upon.
Now, Patricia Murray was awarded for exposing this UCL malfeasance, and Sholto David scrutinised UCL papers for data manipulation.
Schneider Shorts 29.11.2024 – All organs are similar and identical
Schneider Shorts 29.11.2024 – an Alzheimer’s biotech in free fall, an Israeli Scientist explains the unexplainable, a German fraudster indicted, with a butterfly bully, good fellows and bad fellows, inconsistencies in PLOS One, and finally, with some hot chocolate to clean your brain.
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