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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 5.01.2024 – Do not waste your time
Schneider Shorts of 5.01.2024 – with a role model for WomenInStem in Tübingen, a Swedish rector’s Saudi papermiller, universities in US and Europe still valuing scamference medals, medical society with special rules for special people, and why there’s nothing wrong with Chinese blood money
Schneider Shorts 29.12.2023 – Happy New Year!
Schneider Shorts 29.12.2023 – 10 most-read stories of 2023, Bik picking on Italians, with silly editorial notes and anti-aging cures for rich and poor.
Schneider Shorts 22.12.2023 – Merry Christmas!
Schneider Shorts 22.12.2023 – trachea transplanters in London wish to continue, retractions happening when hope was lost, Welsh approach to papermilling, with an Italian researcher harassed, a role model debunked, and finally, with Sholto’s Science Police Christmas special!
In bed with Hari and Aruna
Hari Shanker & Aruna, a YouTube influencer couple in Sweden. With or without Rudolph the Red-Faced Liar. And with Anca and Dafin, two totally innocent and upright Romanians. Pushing pig brain juice an SS Nazi invented. You won’t find a better story for Christmas!
Leonard and Ada Girnita guilty of research misconduct
“The Board states in conclusion that the research leaders Ada Girnita and Leonard Girnita have a special responsibility for guaranteeing the quality of the research group’s publications and that they have failed to take this responsibility fully.”
Schneider Shorts 15.12.2023 – Perverse conclusions
Schneider Shorts 15.12.2023 – historical fraud deemed inconclusive, Sir Gilles transits from neuroscience to biofuels, why most Ioannidis findings are false, with media’s heroes in Italy, Belgium and UK, corrective trolling, belated retractions, money as anti-aging drug, and a true expert resolves the Vickers Curse.
Schneider Shorts 8.12.2023 – A campaign of personal and professional harassment
Schneider Shorts 8.12.2023 – St Carlos flees to Paris again, eye-opening ophthalmology in London, with naughty editors, retractions for papermillers and for German medical elites, some brain food, and finally, a toast to science!
Lille Papermille
French nanotechnologists Sabine Szunerits and Rabah Boukherroub put EU Commission’s money to good use. The EU cannot afford a papermill gap to Iran and China!
Schneider Shorts 1.12.2023 – Determined to undermine people’s reputations
Schneider Shorts 1.12.2023 – MDPI apprehends a thief, Sicilian fraudster’s trouble with women, a papermill fraudster appointed as EiC, a Dutch research fraudster ushers fascism in, retractions for some and concerns for others, and finally, a science terrorist undermining Belfast!
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