By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
“On one side: late-career scientists resorting to purchased promotion of their early-career papers. On the other side: whole new genres of paper-shaped artifacts that are little more than packaging for ever-larger citation cargoes, and papermillers no longer bothering to find buyers for naming rights on their products.” – Smut Clyde
Schneider Shorts 27.03.2026 – degenerative medicine special with London crooks and Californian lunatics, with retractions for mouse torture, concerns for one man’s cancer business, and a Texan Nobelist and his bullying wife.
Schneider Shorts 20.03.2026 – a mysterious German “professor” accused of horrible sex crimes but defended by German justice, an American antivaxxer wants a cancer society locked up, an Italian university pretends to investigate its papermillers, and finally, how an Australian tech bro cured his dog’s cancer with ChatGPT.
Schneider Shorts 13.03.2026 – German university welcomes the real victims of war, bad dentistry and bad cancer research in Germany (with major input from USA), fraud and patient abuse in Italy, and finally, with two papermillers in Poland – one very successful, another hit by retractions.
Schneider Shorts 6.03.2026 – German university saves dean from slander, Spanish sexual harasser ran a fake ethics committee, with qualified editors telling sleuth off, retractions for famous and less famous scholars in UK, Italy and Poland, and finally, whom to pay to cure old old age with young blood marrow.
Schneider Shorts 27.02.2026 – men of science on Epstein’s island, how to profit from a personality cult in Harvard, with concerns for an Israeli genius, old men burdened with retractions, and finally, with an expert guide to ChatGPT!
Schneider Shorts 20.02.2026 – One Max Planck Institute director victimised, another enjoyed russian hospitality, a papermill meltdown in Poland, Canadian biotech founder criticised, Frontiers research integrity AI in action, and finally, the many opportunities in Romanian academia.
Schneider Shorts 13.02.2026 – a Finnish nightmare for a Spanish scholar, a Portuguese Vice-Rector in trouble, a cure for cancer from US government, with a role model for women in German medicine, one champion of research ethics in England and another in Italy, and finally, why you must have a coffee (or a tea) now.
Schneider Shorts 6.02.2026 – men of science who loved Epstein, an Italian bust, how to deal with a sleuth, cancer cured in Spain and old age cured in Germany, and why do academics rally to support the worst people…
Schneider Shorts 30.01.2026 – Daddy’s princess must return to Iran, Japanese professor bribed with brothel visits, retractions for a German sex pest and for Iranian genius in Poland, how racists hacked NIH and how microplastic pollution causes research fraud.
Schneider Shorts 23.01.2026 – German professor accused of sexual assault defended by peers, Italian cheater defended by former mentor, Daddy’s darling wins in court, antivaxxer loses in court, retractions for elite US scholars and elite Malaysian papermillers, and finally, what to eat to live till 100!
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