By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts 27.09.2024 – Greek professor sentenced to prison for extortion, superconductor discovery questioned, reproducibility breakthrough retracted, Spanish foundation chair appointed, MDPI editors exposed, all Elsevier authors replaced, with an innocent rector in Sweden, anti-aging solutions, monkeys predicting US elections, fighting mice, and lots of other nonsense.
“Didier Raoult, the IHU institute, and Eric Chabrière all decided to sue Leonid Schneider for defamation and insults, which they claim to be present in this article. They also sued me, because I translated it into French and put it on my blog ” – Alexander Samuel
Schneider Shorts 20.09.2024 – A Californian man and his trusty clock, Oded’s Dad and other Israeli Scientists, first retractions for a French couple, an Indiana man and an Iranian papermiller, an Elsevier book facing removal, with funny corrections, ex-editor bemoaning a conspiracy and finally, with a concussion device getting pummelled.
“No paper — I would wager quite heavily that a large percentage, probably over 90% of papers in the public domain, have errors in them. Whether or not they be known, I would suggest that would be the case.” – Prof Martin Bushell
Schneider Shorts 13.09.2024 – obituary for an editor, new Swiss rules for authorship, Top Italian Scientist illicitly loses her first paper, an innocent Spanish rector faces retractions, dishonest dishonesty researcher loses lawsuit, with a scandalized German papermiller, concerns and reservations, and finally, with Nazis welcomed by society journal.
“I never agreed to collaborate with this organization. END OF STORY!” – Sir J Fraser Stoddart
“I do not know what your business is, and I find the email below highly offensive.” – Morten Meldal
Schneider Shorts 6.09.2024 – Bochum professor sues me for scamferencer’s honour, For Better Science banned in Italy, Czech cheater vindicated, Irish cheater protected, Dana Farber CEO resigns, with Germany’s highly cited, retractions for a Nobelist, an ex-dean, and three Virginia crooks, plus some eugenics and the microbiome of all diseases.
Schneider Shorts 30.08.2024 – lawyers advise universities about PubPeer, a spoiled brat in Liverpool gets a new toy, an Italian role model gets her first retractions, low standards in Cleveland, with fake and stolen identities, a failed defamation lawsuit, and finally, how US government supports new brains for immortality.
Thomas Südhof, victim of racist and sexist persecution, announced to retract a second paper, “even though the quantitative analyses and conclusions are correct”.
Mu Yang catches two crooks, Ayman Atta and S Muthu, who flooded one Elsevier journal (and several others) with ridiculous hand-drawn fraud. Whom to believe, the peer review, or your own eyes?
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