By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
“It would be wrong to lock the proponents of ‘Longevity and Rejuvenation through DDW!’ in a room with their ‘Longevity and Rejuvenation through Heavy Water!’ counterparts, for a cage fight.” – Smut Clyde
Schneider Shorts 8.05.2026 – from anti-aging obituary in USA to anti-aging rage in russia, a whistleblower achieves a retraction, a society journal gives up, a pharma company burns $4 billion, AI slop at highest level, and finally, does researching alcohol lead to double vision?
Schneider Shorts 1.05.2026 – important men reveal their conflicts, IEEE overrun by Indian papermills, obscure cheating in France, Italian scholars lose papers, an Elsevier editor needs recognition, and finally, how pig sperm cures blindness!
Schneider Shorts 24.04.2026 – Sweden special with two misconduct findings and proof there’s a life after those, an Italian gynecologist who keeps losing papers, with Nature’s failed investigation and a stem cell nasal spray from Texas to cure everything!
Schneider Shorts 17.04.2026 – an anti-aging clinical trial with bonus eye-cancer, a papermiller turns to full-time mushrooming, an artist-scientist educates a youngster, German and Canadian cancer researchers unconcerned, retractions in Italy and Poland, Springer Nature changes history, and finally, a shrimp virus turns people blind!
Schneider Shorts 10.04.2026 – a cheater psychologist sacked in The Netherlands, Italian boys investigated themselves, with an Indian secret to a Polish career, Portuguese anti-aging, retractions in Brazil and Turkey, and with Texas Gibbons!
Schneider Shorts 3.04.2026 – a sexual harasser sacked in Singapore, BMJ completes a rescue mission, how to honour dead friends, with bad liver research in New York, , a victim of ghosting, unaffected conclusions despite irreproducible results, and finally, you won’t believe that AI slop in Elsevier.
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 German “professor” enjoys support from German courts, 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.
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