A stupid and foolish question
“Those noises have no scientific meanings, suggest nothing, forming no any judgments, and have no any influences on the experimental results. ” – Professor Deng‐Guang Yu
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 28.02.2025 – A Guide to Getting a Faculty Position
Schneider Shorts 28.02.2025 – what Scottish professor and Italian MP have in common, a Croatian genius and his friends, a US inventor with sponge and teabag, with Elsevier afraid of a stalker, a premature correction, sexy retractions, and finally, what to consume against obesity and diabetes.
But diplomacy, but elections! – Thoughts on russia’s war on Ukraine
Once again, two dictators prepare to divide Europe.
Schneider Shorts 21.02.2025 – I reviewed the facts and could not find any scientific misconduct
Schneider Shorts 21.02.2025 – Germany special with my plea to German voters, a russia-lover in Hamburg, an animal friend in Magdeburg, a decisive art historian in Cottbus, and an Iran-loving German in Poland, plus other stories of a Californian urologist, a papermill gang, and mass retractions in Elsevier to save one greedy Spanish man.
Schneider Shorts 14.02.2025 – Aberrations that cannot be explained
Schneider Shorts 14.02.2025 – the Matthew Effect in Nobel retractions, Cambridge approves of papermilling, France rewards cheatery, with Karen and her mice, fake miRNA research in Canada, and finally, qualifications you need to get a top job in Switzerland.
The Extortionists, by M. Angeles Oviedo-Garcia
“The preference of Thippa Reddy Gadekallu et al. (Abdul Rehman Javed, Celestine O. Iwendi, Sharnil Nitin Pandya and Gaurav Jay Dhiman) for coercive citation and copy-pasting their review comments” – Maria de los Ángeles Oviedo García
Andrew George and the Virtues of Research Integrity
“One of the UK research system’s strengths is having established processes that allow for this review so that we maintain an accurate and robust research record. Promoting and improving this system, and encouraging more openness and transparency, is why I became involved in the UK Committee on Research Integrity.” – Andrew J T George
Schneider Shorts 7.02.2025 -Internal checkpoints to assure such mishaps
Schneider Shorts 7.02.2025 – two material science fabricators in Sweden, one established, one just recruited, two innocent white men who fell prey to naughty Pakistani, with a retraction for a Scottish legend, publishers cleaning up, plagiarism from the best, some corrections, and a Springer contractor gaslighting a sleuth.
The elusive Margot Zöller
Celebrating the German cancer research maverick Margot Zöller of Heidelberg.
“Unreliable” by Csaba Szabo – book review and excerpt
Csaba Szabo’s book “Unreliable: Bias, Fraud, and the Reproducibility Crisis in Biomedical Research” – review by Zoltan Ungvari and excerpt.
