Swedish rector Anders Hagfeldt pronounced innocent of papermilling
“The board’s conclusion is therefore that the deviations regarding figure 2b and 2c in article 1 constitute serious deviations from good research practice”
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A Mecca for Bad Science
“One could argue that the Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences itself represents a “severe abuse of the scientific publishing system”. However, with the support of two of the world’s worst institutions (Elsevier AND the Saudi kleptocracy) I’m sure there will be no end in sight.” – Sholto David
Schneider Shorts 8.09.2023 – Hope to one billion individuals
Schneider Shorts of 8.09.2023 – a German party has science on its side, a retired fraudster sanctioned by ORI, a journal scrutinised, putin’s daughter publishes in MDPI, with high- and low-profile retractions, an Israeli-super-genius, brain hacks, and finally, why russo-iranian papermillers are false friends.
Dario Altieri remembers Filippo Giancotti
The sad state of affairs of oncology drug discovery
Ukrainian papermills – symptom, not a cause
“Prof. Dr. Svetlana Drobyazko, The European Academy of Sciences Ltd and Scientific Publication Service are a symptom, not a cause, of the current problems in academic publishing. ” – Nick Wise
Schneider Shorts 1.09.2023 – Circular Economy Taskforce
Schneider Shorts 1.09.2023 – how not to deal with rogue student, fraudster sanctioned despite unaffected conclusions, Nobelist gets two more retractions, with a wandering XRD spectrum, Swedish rector under investigation, British medical elites and their businesses, Japanese comedy neuroscience, and finally, the certain direction russian science must be sent to.
Please Don’t Steal My Work, by Maria Toft
“…my suspicion is that academia is much more haunted by power abuse and structures of fear than most other systems. […] these conditions put a pressure on otherwise morally functioning human beings and suddenly “research theft” and power abuse become part of the invisible academic culture.” – Maria Toft
Schneider Shorts 25.08.2023 – Longevity XXX
Schneider Shorts 25.08.2023 – a Nobelist opens an anti-aging business, a journal remains evil under new leadership, with retractions for former ERC president, an Oz bully and other fraudsters, embarrassing corrections or inactions elsewhere, frontiers in communism, and finally, a victim of clinical abuse releases documentary.
Synthetic Communications with Ali Fakhri and his real or imaginary friends
“the entire dramatis personae seem to have crawled out of our man’s sock drawer, and the page-count of Synthetic Communications would be grievously impoverished without his contributions, whether direct or uncredited.”- Smut Clyde
Schneider Shorts 18.08.2023 – In the first instance you make contact with the journal editors
Schneider Shorts 18.08.2023 – Australian university outsources faculty affairs to Elsevier, Elsevier editor reports sleuth for misconduct, Mexican fraudster’s post-mortem retractions, more retractions in Dresden, with lying russians, Vicker’s Curse striking twice, and finally, Nobelist and struck-off dentist sell business for many millions.
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