George Church, Colossal W*nker
From mammoths to eugenics to anti-aging scams: god-impersonator George Church knows how to make money with bullshit.
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
From mammoths to eugenics to anti-aging scams: god-impersonator George Church knows how to make money with bullshit.
Schneider Shorts 23.06.2023 – Italian killer surgeon gets sentenced to 2.5 years in Sweden, Harvard’s honesty expert exposed as fraudster, German university refuses to investigate papermiller, with ACS being naughty again, anti-aging breakthroughs in MDPI, and finally, an accidental sickness in Wuhan in November 2019.
“Dr. Scheibe presented to me the original blots […]. I think that’s pretty convincing.”
Schneider Shorts 16.06.2023 – an evaluation in Strasbourg finds a flyer, trash science from Rome, trash science from Harvard, cures for Long COVID and old age, with a baroque art sale, Latvian cooking recipes, informative Frontiers retractions, and finally, the mystery of who blew up the dam.
Schneider Shorts 9.06.2023 – Italy’s greatest scholar dedicates his life to training Asian papermillers, concern for Texas fraudster, stem cell embarrassment, retraction a decade delayed, with more retractions, papermill promo, and finally, Germany’s pesticide shill with whitewashed PubPeer record.
Schneider Shorts 2.06.2023 – how cancer is cured at Stanford and Harvard, mass retractions at Hindawi journal, tricks for life extention, chocolate for Alzheimer’s, with a polluted conference, a papermilling Belgian, failed and successful corrections, and a dirty old man’s wild trial.
“The German President and delegation members also spoke with researchers working on challenges relating to clean energy,…”
Schneider Shorts 26.05.2023 – a dyslexic graphing software in Israel, a Marseille court decides wisely, ingenious cures for autism and Parkinson’s, with Nobelist’s new retraction, stem cell fraudsters’ retraction, botched-up retraction notice, more retractions, and finally, how a German professor-maker investigated his papers.
My review of the new book by Angela Saini on “how men came to rule”.
Schneider Shorts 19.05.2023 – Bad Optiks for an Elsevier journal, a rectification of bad journalism, a retraction achieved, with Taiwanese politics, young blood, menthol cures, and finally, an Israeli scientist’s supplement-induced paranoia.




