Cancer at Charité
New season of the popular German TV series, ” Charité”, this time set in the early 21st century! Will Jürgen ever become professor? Will Bernd ever allow science to self-correct? Will Christoph ever catch his mechanical pursuer?
Author: Leonid Schneider
Independent Science Journalist and Cartoonist.
Formerly molecular cell biologist. My academic CV at: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6204-9470
On Freedom by Timothy Snyder, book review
This is my review of the new book by the historian Timothy Snyder, “On Freedom”.
Schneider Shorts 18.10.2024 – Spamming without any embargo
Schneider Shorts 18.10.2024 – obituary for one of the few upright academics, horrid abuse by Dutch archaeologist revealed in lawsuit, MDPI causes death of Romanian employee, a society publisher has enough of pesky sleuths, big alpha males retract papers, and finally, with hyperbaric oxygen scam in UK.
Carlos Cordon-Cardo and Friends
The Schneider Rule teaches that if you wish to meet many science cheaters you must follow one of them.
Schneider Shorts 11.10.2024 – Tokens of scientific legitimacy
Schneider Shorts 11.10.2024 – Cancer cures and Nobel Prize special with a British and a German businessman selling vaccine therapy, two oncology professors with fake figures, plus a Hungarian papermiller, and the real cause and cure for Alzheimer’s.
Schneider Shorts 4.10.2024 – A Nobel Prize candidate who saved numerous lives
Schneider Shorts 4.10.2024 – Rapamycin advocate loses battle with cancer, Switzerland’s Twitter celebrity in trouble, Australia’s melanoma program run by two fraudsters, a papermilling dean in Canada, a harassed innocent angel in Mexico, a Belgian phantom, with book chapters tombstoned, retractions for stars in USA and Italy, and finally, with a failed drug to cure long COVID.
Dirty Old Men
Does being a science genius entitle you to sexual harassment, as academic authorities in Yale and elsewhere insist? Let’s look at papers by Michael Simons, Joseph Schlessinger and Arnold Levine.
Schneider Shorts 27.09.2024 – A faked character with faked prison matters
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.
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité – only for Raoult and French elites
“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 – Entirely unacceptable and must stop immediately
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.
For Better Science 