The Chinese Paper Mill Industry: Interview with Smut Clyde and Tiger BB8
Unlike those fake paper mill products, this interview failed editorial review and journal quality control.
Author: Leonid Schneider
Independent Science Journalist and Cartoonist.
Formerly molecular cell biologist. My academic CV at: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6204-9470
Whitewashed by ACS and Elsevier, Zboril sues Olomouc Dean for “bullying”
“I should remind you that the editorial offices that investigated your allegations did not found any evidence of scientific misconduct or data fabrication. In my opinion, your allegation may bear the elements of defamation and false accusation” – Prof Radek Zboril
Schneider Shorts 21.05.2021: Anal Science
Schneider Shorts of 21 May 2021 with a whistleblower’s letter, some proud trachea transplanters, racism in sports and sperm, an Israeli surgeon’s first-time retraction, a Brazilian angel of death, Germans embracing Vitamin D, ivermectin and illegal Stöcker vaccines, Indians embracing cow manure, and mice sodomised with a toothbrush to invent a cure for COVID-19.
Hat, Socks and Glyphosate
What do scientists wear when handling glyphosate? Not what they tell you.
Schneider Shorts 14.05.2021: Conclusions not affected
This week’s Schneider Shorts are about unaffected conclusions and destroyed raw data, the war on virus, vaccines and antivaxxers, and the virtues of having a long nose.
Remember Charles-Henri Lecellier?
Charles-Henri Lecellier is about to get promoted to CNRS research director 2nd class. Time to dig up old stories and let the ghosts rise to wash their dirty laundry.
Meaningless and pseudoscientific potatoes
How to cook potato data. A recipe from Poland.
The unwanted COVID-19 preprint of Rudolph Jaenisch
Famous MIT lab discovered the coronavirus integrates into human genome and is still transcribed! Between preprint and contributed PNAS paper, three authors and a mechanism were dropped.
Schneider Shorts 7.05.2021 – Cures Galore
Schneider Shorts for 5 May 2021: retractions and resignations, geniuses saving the world from COVID-19, anti-aging scams and Didier Raoult’s legal attack on Elisabeth Bik.
Stefano Mancuso’s Brilliant Green and Plant Revolution: review of two books
Here I review two more books by Stefano Mancuso, a somewhat unorthodox plant scientist from Florence
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