Kristian Helin gets the perfect job
ICR London has a new director. The Great Dane Kristian Helin is the perfect successor to continue the ideological line of fictional cancer research.
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 30.04.2021 – Sputnik Meltdown
Schneider Shorts 30 April 2021: a stupid Neanderthals study, Sputnik V meltdown, German anti-maskers in MDPI, and probably the most unethical COVID-19 clinical trial.
Corona up your NOse
“Prior going to the grocery store, after the grocery store, you’d spray it in your nose, for instance, or you go to day care or someone coughs on you,” – Dr Chris Miller, co-founder of SaNOtize.
Schneider Shorts 23.04.2021- Italian Mystery Troll
Schneider Shorts 23 April 2021: exciting COVID-19 clinical trials, blood tests for depression, photoshopped plant science, more tea with Professor Seeberger, chocolate diets, amazing cancer cures, and an Italian mystery troll obsessed with me.
The Island of Dr Izpisua Belmonte
Human-monkey chimeras arrive to solve the problem of organ shortage. Thank Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, who is ready to cure all possible diseases and even the old age. With chutzpah and Cell on his side.
Xiongbin Lu nanobombs cancer with fluorescent nude mouse recycling
“IU School of Medicine scientists discover ‘game-changer’ treatment for triple negative breast cancer”
Schneider Shorts 16.04.2021 – Introducing!
Introducing new For Better Science weekly format: Schneider Shorts
Stefano Mancuso’s Nation of Plants: review of two books
Stefano Mancuso studies neuroscience of plants. I review two of his recent popular science books: “The Incredible Journey of Plants” and “The Nation of Plants”.
The intellectual leaps of Joe Shapiro
Charcoal as COVID-19 therapy? It may sound silly, but there is solid history of data fudging behind it, wandering western blots included!
The End of Twitter
The grass root revolution continues, but I’m not on Twitter anymore.
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