The Biggest Fraudster of All
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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 7.08.2026 – The motive remains a mystery
Schneider Shorts 7.08.2026 – a tech bro cleans oceans, a climate expert suggests animal sacrifice, a creepy American crook still trying to cheat, Italian role models lose papers, Danish ecologist fails to cure cancer, and a Pole threatening punishment gets punished.
Work hard and play hard like Marcelo Kazanietz
“Mariana will tell your wife things that she does not want to hear. Believe when I tell you that it is not a good idea to play games with Mariana. […] you will have to pay the consequences for your stupid decisions” – Professor Kazanietz, to a lab member
Schneider Shorts 31.07.2026 – Stackable micro-credentials
Schneider Shorts 31.07.2026 – trans children abused in Norway, a racist supported in Belgium, a mega-cheater rules English universities, a questionable female role model awarded in USA, with an ill-informed version of how Sage retractions happened, cures for cancer and autism, and finally, you’ll never believe the real reason why fruit and veg are good for you!
How Bernhard Sabel cured the blind and saved science
“What do science and “true love” have in common? Both are infatuated by passion, but if trust is lost, it is almost impossible to go back.” – Bernhard Sabel
Schneider Shorts 24.07.2026 – Peer-review process as a means of upholding scientific integrity
Schneider Shorts 24.07.2026 – proper channels at work in Austria, Science self-correcting, tobacco shills and papermillers in charge of food security, with husband and wife torturing mice, important men losing papers, many other papermill retractions, and tips on how to deal with PubPeer moderation!
Schneider Shorts 17.07.2026 – Who appointed you as vigilante?
Schneider Shorts 17.07.2026 – a serial rapist at Charite Berlin could still graduate, an Italian scholar who hates snitches, two science guardians finding each other, with the first retraction for German professors and several Polish scholars losing papers, including from an entirely retracted MDPI special issue.
Schneider Shorts 10.07.2026 – Research environment committed to rigor and honesty
Schneider Shorts 10.07.2026 – a bullying diva whitewashed in a Swiss travesty, the importance of AI for science, plus retractions for a legendary Italian fraudster in USA and scholars in New Zealand and Romania.
Schneider Shorts 3.07.2026 – With collaboration and determination, we can move innovations from bench to bedside
Schneider Shorts of 3.07.2026 – a Georgian dream in Switzerland, a German professor who overdid his papermilling, a Chinese refugee chased by retractions, a great Italian who discovered Imanitib, and the mystery question of who is protecting a US-Iranian fraudster from retractions?
Schneider Shorts 26.06.2026 – Net zero roadmap for accelerating papermill transition
Schneider Shorts 26.06.2026 – a German university sponsors papermills, picoparticles and visiting researchers havoc in Poland, British climate warrior loses first paper, plus more retractions for a man who never was to Czechia and for men who don’t even exist.
