By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
“I focus on the sprawling parody literature devoted to the three Es of Energy, Economy and the Environment. Together they […] freeload on the authentic literature on energy efficiency and pollution reduction (while diluting, distracting and discrediting them).” – Smut Clyde
Schneider Shorts 17.05.2024 -Britain’s research integrity chair investigates his first big case, Maarten debates Doubting Thomas, Springer retracts whole book, retractions for elites in Harvard and Uppsala, bad science causes cancer from covid, with Elsevier being naughty, Schneider found guilty in Liege, and why you must never open your door to a papermiller.
Schneider Shorts 10.05.2024 – an abusive archaeology couple kicked out in Leiden, an octogenerian Heidelberg oncologist under spotlight, an Indiana superstar wiped out, Rome papermill about to crash, corrections for various great white men, and a long-awaited retraction at MDPI.
Schneider Shorts 3.05.2024 – Ajan the Pathological Liar steals identities for false DMCA claims, a citation scammer to become rector in Spain, patient abuse at Mount Sinai, with unhelpful corrections and retractions, one zombie suspended and another returning, and a tech bro eugenics institute shut down in Oxford.
Schneider Shorts 26.04.2024 – celebrity retraction in Science, An Italian papermiller under investigation in Norway, papermillers get own journal, an English professor asks for privacy, with publishers misbehaving, retraction retracted, and an Australian university finally finding out who faked everything.
Schneider Shorts 19.04.2024 – Nobelist defended by fellow German man, two progeny sons of successful fathers, retractions for various Italian bigwigs, papermill fraud professionally corrected, with a neuroscience breakthrough only few people can master, censorship at a Dutch university, and finally, how to have more sex with Frontiers.
Schneider Shorts 12.04.2024 – three Shorts only this time, with a superconductive fraudster who lied about everything, a role model for WomenInSTEM in UK, and a sexual harasser first protected, then sacked by UN research institute.
Schneider Shorts 5.04.2024 – angry old Nobelist hounded again, one German professor whitewashed, another told to find new friends, Iranian student in Finland admits buying authorships, Polish vice-rector brings papermilling home, more retractions for Italian ex-rector, and finally, with an obituary to anti-aging researcher.
Schneider Shorts 29.03.2024 – German medical elites special: with Gender, Diversity and a retirement party in Ulm, an incomplete investigation in Göttingen, naughty mentees of a Heidelberg pharmacologist, plus investigation outcomes in USA, King’s first retraction, and why you must have a coffee right now.
Schneider Shorts 22.03.2023 – honesty researcher faces the sack, misconduct charges lifted in Norway, misconduct charges in Sweden, with anti-canadian xenophobia, publishers showing understanding for all kinds of fraud, and finally, with anti-aging advice for dogs and men.
Schneider Shorts of 15.03.2024 – Alzheimer cures from China, Spain and the FDA, a nasty ork sanctioned in Germany, with a Lord of the Biochar Rings, medals for the bestest science ever, a brain breakthrough, and finally, what can University of Ulm do against Schneider?
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