By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts 23.12.2022 – the Christmas spirits bring us a baby saved by stem cell magic in England, a mysterious sexual harasser in Germany, fake French nanotechnology, illustrative figures and stolen identities in USA, a cure for both COVID-19 and cancer, and finally, a bunch of academic racists paid by a Nazi fund.
Schneider Shorts 15.12.2022: with retractions for a Slovak papermill customer, a homeopath in Germany, a cheater couple in Sweden and a family-linked fraudster gang in Italy, editorial gatekeeping in action, editorial inaction at gatekeeping, boozy misconduct in elite lab, and finally, with the best Alzheimer’s cures money can buy.
Schneider Shorts 25.11.2022 – how money trumps basic medical ethics for elite London universities, a Belgian failed scientist doing business in Korea, retractions overdue, forgiven or unavoided, plus horse racing, an Israeli image integrity software doing what it should, and a cool research integrity workshop in Liverpool.
“here is my advice to Clarivate: better get lost. ” – Alexander Magazinov
Schneider Shorts 14.10.2022 – the mystery past of Dresden rector, a sacked dean in Czechia, a Don’t mess with Texas mega-correction in Nature, concerns expressed for Sicilian nepotist fraudsters, an indignant Weizmann scientist, scamferences legalised in Würzburg, and new fun stories of the Hindawi papermill!
Schneider Shorts 7.10.2022 – three long shorts about British dead scientists tainted with fraud charges, a zombie scientist hosted in Texas, copyright issues and unaffected conclusions in The Netherlands, plus a geoengineering genius, a cheater’s first retraction, dirty old man’s lawsuits, and new NIH money for the makers of COVID-19!
“My attention was first drawn to Blum, Febo & Badgaiyan for what was either a ground-breaking advance in scientific illustration, or an attempt to win the inaugural Cheese Promotion Cup” – Smut Clyde
You know Voinnet, but now meet other great life scientists of Strasbourg: Drouard, Loeffler, Boutillier, Mr and Mrs Egly, and many others.
Schneider Shorts 16.09.2022 – Israelis solve COVID-19 and lab-grown meat, Danes solve obesity and autism, a Californian Persian solves diabetes, with a harassed editor, an unretractable Schrödinger’s paper, Temple fraud on national news, how much Dr Oz loves puppies, more eugenics endorsement from EMBL, and a persecuted dirty old man in Marseille with a sperm bank.
Schneider Shorts 9.09.2022 – a Nobel man retracts four papers, professor XYZ retracts one, UCL being their usual greedy crooked racist self, with a cancer cure from Karolinska, an anti-aging solution from Brazil, the dangers of blue screens, a Romanian genius in England, and a dirty old man in Marseille cornered.
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