Issues of global relevance
“I like ImageTwin, but seeing things with just eyes is like hand-to-hand combat….” – Mu Yang
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 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.
A Yale fossil
As a Rainmaker friend of Richard Flavell once said many times, “What is the problem here?”
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.
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