Nobelists advertise for russian papermill?
“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
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 6.09.2024 – Vaffanculo
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 – Institutions cannot spend every waking hour reviewing PubPeer comments
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 and AI-powered weapons of micro-duplication
Thomas Südhof, victim of racist and sexist persecution, announced to retract a second paper, “even though the quantitative analyses and conclusions are correct”.
Journal of Molecular Liquids vs One-Man Papermills
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?
Schneider Shorts 23.08.2024 – We understand this is frustrating
Schneider Shorts 23.08.2024 – why an mpox drug failed, Slovak professor’s dirty secret, Italian alpha male’s second retraction, Kazakh-Hungarian collaboration spammed, with confusion about sold authorships, tricky assays, a book of curcumin, and finally, with ACS setting priorities straight.
A scientist of integrity and beyond reproach
“The Investigative Committee notes that the infractions to normal scientific conduct surveyed in this report were blatant and repeated. Dr. [XY] should be dealt with in a manner consistent to the flagrant nature of the misconduct and data manipulation.” 2004 Berkeley report, illegal in Germany
Schneider Shorts 16.08.2024 – Megalomania squared
Schneider Shorts 16.09.2024 – superconductor data released, old American alpha males in trouble, a theory why CureVac failed, a resigned Polish papermiller’s lament, with a remote-papermiller in London, France’s celebrity plagiarist, a society for fake neuroscience, MDPI in action, and finally a bad ecstasy trip in California.
Schneider Shorts 9.08.2024 – Rector Lorenc, we will not be intimidated
Schneider Shorts 9.08.2024 – Polish rector extorts journalists for money as yet another papermiller is installed, how to look like an Israeli Scientist, sleuth’s boss accused of fraud, retractions for innocent Italians, Sicilian man gets a new job, and finally, an obituary on another master from Messina.
Retraction blackmail – new service by Iranian papermills
“I was asked to pay in bitcoin to avoid retraction”. – Zbigniew Leonowicz
For Better Science 