Dr. Mohammad Arjmand showcases his work to German President Steinmeier
“The German President and delegation members also spoke with researchers working on challenges relating to clean energy,…”
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 26.05.2023 – Underexplored outcomes of Dyslexia
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.
The Patriarchs by Angela Saini: book review
My review of the new book by Angela Saini on “how men came to rule”.
Schneider Shorts 19.05.2023 – Why me and who are these people
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.
Schneider Shorts 12.05.2023 – Mentorship, supportive guidance, and friendship
Schneider Shorts 12.05.2023 – a killer doctor in Berlin, a bully in Harvard, Germans in Saudi Arabia, misconduct findings in Canada, an ex-editor in Vietnam, papermillers grace various publishers, Greatest Scientist returns to Austria, a German tool against papermills, and finally: several retractions, one even with a confession!
Cancer and anesthesia – a question of trust
Morty reviews a review, on an important topic and written by Belgian scholars. Turns out, it is mostly referencing fraudulent and papermilled trash from China.
Schneider Shorts 5.05.2023 – Freedom and responsibility of the scientists
Schneider Shorts 5.05.2023 – Spanish Saudi Shills: a trilogy, state-of-the-art tools to cure diabetes, papermilling gang moves to new Elsevier journal, congrats on 1000 citations, with legitimate images, imaginary American co-authors, rapamycin longevity advice, catfish as COVID-19 origin, and finally, why German universities sponsor Hindawi.
Schneider Shorts 28.04.2023 – Helping young and aspiring people
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.
Stuck with Hommel, or Bad Choices in Leiden
“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 – So much work of high quality
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.
