King Saud’s Men
Celebrating the ten greatest science geniuses of the King Saud University.
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 6.06.2025 – Researchers with High Citation and Publication Counts
Schneider Shorts 6.06.2025 – one anti-qualified troll to judge all scientists in Italy, another asks Trump for $50 billion, with a celebrated Thai couple, a russian in America, an incredible correction in Frontiers, plus retractions and concerns for some very important people.
Iran-Man of Sussex and Wonder-Woman of Amsterdam
“no further steps will be taken as a result.”
Schneider Shorts 30.05.2025 – All of them are genuine mistakes
Schneider Shorts 30.05.2025 – Czech university names a building, British doctor cures neuro disorders, Dutch editor impressed by Neapolitan honesty, when even preprints aren’t safe, with retractions in India and Cameroon, and finally, London scholars lose a plastic ear.
Good luck, Jolanda Spadavecchia!
CNRS research director Jolanda Spadavecchia was sanctioned with two years suspension for “serious and repeated breaches of her duty of scientific integrity”, 19 retractions were requested.
Schneider Shorts 23.05.2025 – Defamation and damage to business
Schneider Shorts 23.05.2025 – Germany’s papermill experts announce lawsuits, Canada’s researcher of the year, how a learned society acted urgently, Iranian papermiller’s second identity, cruel retractions, and finally, why it’s sometimes hard to defend scientists from Trump.
Schneider Shorts 16.05.2025 – Something that runs through the whole organisation
Schneider Shorts 16.05.2025 – totally not an Italian mafia in Philly, a Korean groceries papermill, with ACS’s morals, Springer Nature’s gatekeeping, radiant biophotons, Harvard’s AI to get rid of useless eaters, and finally, Theranos’s triumphal return!
Tannapfel, a German success story
The papers are old, raw data unavailable, one can see small differences, some students probably did it, and anyway, conclusions are unaffected.
Schneider Shorts 9.05.2025 – The end of your comfort zone
Schneider Shorts 9.05.2025 – Chinese professor in Germany accused of espionage, genius papermiller sanctioned in Norway, Swedish cheater can’t stop cheating, a Big Pharma career cut short, awful corrections in Wiley and Elsevier, a curcumin fail, and finally, old men back with anti-aging tips.
The perfect MDPI editor
“I know you cannot understand such matters, since you appear to have strong mother-related problems that most likely have denied you of a satisfactory sexual life”, _ Enrico Sciubba, Editor-in-Chief
For Better Science 