By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts 28.04.2023 – old American papers in need of fixing, young russian and Iranian researchers in need of helping, French whistleblowers in need of punishing, Austrian anti-aging supplements in need of advertising, with an anti-aging pimp on cocaine, depressive fish in China, cured Israeli soldiers, and finally, retractions in full, in part and not at all.
“Scientific articles often have more than one author, with different contributions and responsibilities. It cannot be the case that in all events of demonstrated malpractice in publications, where one or more authors have been shown to have breached the scientific integrity, all other authors are therefore suspect without any further indication.” Leiden University defends Bernhard Hommel
Schneider Shorts 21.04.2023 – due diligence in Germany, cancer biotech bonanza in USA, python expert in Iran, highly cited researchers in Spain, English professor in russia, Italian fraudster in an unexpected company, with eugenics, racism and war-mongering, and finally, why a papermill fabrication can’t be retracted.
My review of the new book by Stefano Mancuso about the roles plants played in human history
“Without specific and credible allegations of research misconduct, MIT is unable to take any action.”
Schneider Shorts 14.04.2023 – whitewashed Chinese cheater in Wales continues with fraud, an Italian cheater puzzled about attention, a Spanish cheater corrects a paper, with an olfactory memory hack, a cat’s papermill thread, some scrotums, and finally, a German role model for WomenInSTEM.
Schneider Shorts 7.04.2023 – Spanish King of Papermillers sacked, a bully ecologist in Yale, how to give healthy people cancer, with a stem cell cure approved in Germany, publishers’ different approaches to research integrity, and what to do about another journal blacklist.
“He has embarked on a path of
unacceptable slander, not only against me, but also against my colleagues
(Prof. Oleg Smutok, Prof. Arnold Kiv, Prof. Vladimir Solovyov). We have all the necessary evidence to bring Leonid Schneider to justice for slander and moral turpitude.” – Taras Kavetskyy.
Schneider Shorts of 31.03.2023 – Unexpected retraction for Italian trachea transplant surgeon, first retraction to US cancer bigwig and lady friend, retraction of retraction for Georgia State papermiller, helping Iranian peers from Germany, a Canadian whistleblower’s relentless fight, with rascist academic elites, Germany’s Nazi expert, and finally, advice from a child prodigy on how to work hard and learn a lot!
“…the Commission emphasized that some of the members of the author’s team paid lip service to integrity in science, while at the same time consciously or unconsciously allowing deviations from the principles they promoted in their own activities. “
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