By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts 7.08.2026 – a tech bro cleans oceans, a climate expert suggests animal sacrifice, a creepy American crook still trying to cheat, Italian role models lose papers, Danish ecologist fails to cure cancer, and a Pole threatening punishment gets punished.
Schneider Shorts 31.07.2026 – trans children abused in Norway, a racist supported in Belgium, a mega-cheater rules English universities, a questionable female role model awarded in USA, with an ill-informed version of how Sage retractions happened, cures for cancer and autism, and finally, you’ll never believe the real reason why fruit and veg are good for you!
Schneider Shorts 24.07.2026 – proper channels at work in Austria, Science self-correcting, tobacco shills and papermillers in charge of food security, with husband and wife torturing mice, important men losing papers, many other papermill retractions, and tips on how to deal with PubPeer moderation!
Schneider Shorts 17.07.2026 – a serial rapist at Charite Berlin could still graduate, an Italian scholar who hates snitches, two science guardians finding each other, with the first retraction for German professors and several Polish scholars losing papers, including from an entirely retracted MDPI special issue.
Schneider Shorts 10.07.2026 – a bullying diva whitewashed in a Swiss travesty, the importance of AI for science, plus retractions for a legendary Italian fraudster in USA and scholars in New Zealand and Romania.
Schneider Shorts of 3.07.2026 – a Georgian dream in Switzerland, a German professor who overdid his papermilling, a Chinese refugee chased by retractions, a great Italian who discovered Imanitib, and the mystery question of who is protecting a US-Iranian fraudster from retractions?
Schneider Shorts 26.06.2026 – a German university sponsors papermills, picoparticles and visiting researchers havoc in Poland, British climate warrior loses first paper, plus more retractions for a man who never was to Czechia and for men who don’t even exist.
Schneider Shorts 19.06.2026 – how to pass on a fraudster, a sex pest meets his friends in Prague, new episode of “Sleuth and the Proper Channels”, with retractions in Portugal, teenagers failing to do their duties, and finally, a British man’s dinosaur handbag!
Schneider Shorts 12.06.2026 – a German fraud fighter by night and quack doctor by day, why journal editors don’t like sleuths, Chinese influencer exposes fraud in Nature, retractions for papermillers in Germany and Poland, and finally, lab leaks and their cover-ups
Schneider Shorts 5.06.2026 – a cancer center in USA loses director, russia gains an Italian, Belgium lucky to have a russian, Spanish star and his lawyer celebrate victory, a British pensioner suffers a retraction, and so does a German professor, and finally, can we really trust vaccines from Wuhan?
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