By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
“If, within the aforementioned 15 days, you have not proceeded to make the retraction I am requesting, this corporation will consider itself free to take any legal actions necessary under the law.” – Jesus Maria Sanz Serna, President
Schneider Shorts 22.08.2023 – Italian health minister not worried, Argentinian researchers going silent, Elsevier issuing amazing corrections, EMBO Press issuing inaction, and an MDPI Jesus declaring corrections a sin.
Schneider Shorts 15.09.2023 – officially innocent scientists in Germany, USA and Sweden, Italian etnobotanist befriends Indian papermill, Harvard to sack first professor, with a successful and a failed biotech, a computer conspiring against editors, and finally, how Nature invented the climate change.
“The board’s conclusion is therefore that the deviations regarding figure 2b and 2c in article 1 constitute serious deviations from good research practice”
Schneider Shorts of 8.09.2023 – a German party has science on its side, a retired fraudster sanctioned by ORI, a journal scrutinised, putin’s daughter publishes in MDPI, with high- and low-profile retractions, an Israeli-super-genius, brain hacks, and finally, why russo-iranian papermillers are false friends.
The sad state of affairs of oncology drug discovery
Schneider Shorts 1.09.2023 – how not to deal with rogue student, fraudster sanctioned despite unaffected conclusions, Nobelist gets two more retractions, with a wandering XRD spectrum, Swedish rector under investigation, British medical elites and their businesses, Japanese comedy neuroscience, and finally, the certain direction russian science must be sent to.
“…my suspicion is that academia is much more haunted by power abuse and structures of fear than most other systems. […] these conditions put a pressure on otherwise morally functioning human beings and suddenly “research theft” and power abuse become part of the invisible academic culture.” – Maria Toft
Schneider Shorts 25.08.2023 – a Nobelist opens an anti-aging business, a journal remains evil under new leadership, with retractions for former ERC president, an Oz bully and other fraudsters, embarrassing corrections or inactions elsewhere, frontiers in communism, and finally, a victim of clinical abuse releases documentary.
Schneider Shorts 18.08.2023 – Australian university outsources faculty affairs to Elsevier, Elsevier editor reports sleuth for misconduct, Mexican fraudster’s post-mortem retractions, more retractions in Dresden, with lying russians, Vicker’s Curse striking twice, and finally, Nobelist and struck-off dentist sell business for many millions.
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