Professor Grune’s diet of dodgy blots
As German TV asks Tilman Grune what he will eat in the future, I have other questions for him.
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
As German TV asks Tilman Grune what he will eat in the future, I have other questions for him.
Schneider Shorts 30.10.2025 – torturing students for science in Chile, a professor in Taiwan shaves his legs, with Scottish sustainability, universities taking distance, retractions for papermilling, insignificance and plagiarism, clogged proper channels, and finally, how AI can be used for science.
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Schneider Shorts 21.03.2025 – Brazilian Academician who may have second thoughts about awarding PubPeer, what to eat to avoid breast cancer, with Armenian Alzheimer’s vaccines, a litigious fraudster, elusive Belgians, and finally, what German government knew about pandemic origins.
“Read the damn paper and look at the figures before publishing it; it’s not that hard” – Archasia belfragei
Schneider Shorts 3.01.2025 – a Nobelist who never cared about money is dead, a board certified dermatopathologist fights hybrid attacks, with a russian papermiller in Kazakhstan, salami publishing, an unexpected retraction for a German biotech, and finally, with the most shameless corrections so far.
Schneider Shorts 13.12.2024 – anti-aging scammers report pushy competitor to the media, an embattled biotech gets its former executive back after lawsuit, plus a bunch of retractions including five for Sicilian ex-rector, and two for already corrected papers by Israeli Scientists.
Schneider Shorts 29.11.2024 – an Alzheimer’s biotech in free fall, an Israeli Scientist explains the unexplainable, a German fraudster indicted, with a butterfly bully, good fellows and bad fellows, inconsistencies in PLOS One, and finally, with some hot chocolate to clean your brain.
Schneider Shorts 8.11.2024 – German scholars save children from cancer, a German professor separates fraud from mistakes, Pakistani scholar saves millions in England, with a Belgian research fraud investigator, American senolytics, academic kakistokracy in Poland, silly drawings passed off as spectra, and finally, on Trump and fascist America.
“WE DONT PAY FOR PAPERS. YOU MUST KNOW THAT THESE BEST IN THE PLANET JOURNALS GO THROUGH RIGOROUS PEER REVIEW” – Abhijit Dey, papermiller




