By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
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 – 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.
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.
Schneider Shorts 14.04.2023 – whitewashed Chinese cheater in Wales continues with fraud, an Italian cheater puzzled about attention, a Spanish cheater corrects a paper, with an olfactory memory hack, a cat’s papermill thread, some scrotums, and finally, a German role model for WomenInSTEM.
Schneider Shorts 7.04.2023 – Spanish King of Papermillers sacked, a bully ecologist in Yale, how to give healthy people cancer, with a stem cell cure approved in Germany, publishers’ different approaches to research integrity, and what to do about another journal blacklist.
Schneider Shorts of 31.03.2023 – Unexpected retraction for Italian trachea transplant surgeon, first retraction to US cancer bigwig and lady friend, retraction of retraction for Georgia State papermiller, helping Iranian peers from Germany, a Canadian whistleblower’s relentless fight, with rascist academic elites, Germany’s Nazi expert, and finally, advice from a child prodigy on how to work hard and learn a lot!
Schneider Shorts 24.03.2023 – a Chinese double-bluff with raccoon dogs, an Italian professor defends his Iranian papers, other Italian professors honored with Swedish medals, with green energy retractions In USA, a Spanish papermiller in russia, a Persian fallen star in Germany, and finally, yet another pervert German professor unnamed.
Schneider Shorts 17.03.2023 – St Carlos of Cnidaria in PNAS, appropriate action on fraud in Grenoble, protests in Groningen, how Alzheimer’s, old age, obesity, COVID-19 and depression got solved, with Taras the Papermiller, publishing business setbacks, and finally, retractions galore!
Schneider Shorts 10.03.2023 – two science bigwigs caught with unaffected conclusions, return of superconductive fraud in Nature, other examples of who’s trustworthy and who isn’t, what Stanford president knew, some retractions, MDPI fighting papermills, a German journal can’t stop papermilling, and finally, who blew up Nord Stream pipelines?
Schneider Shorts 3.03.2023 – Lab leak theory of COVID-19 escapes peer review, sadist professor in Germany (almost) exposed, various takes on the usefulness of academic friendship, with a stem cell breakthrough, Lancet and COPE bashed, and finally, why single men smell so nice.
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