By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
“I am not angry with the post-publication surgery that the publisher performed on the affected papers after discovering the shenanigans, scrubbing off the names of spurious reviewers. Just very disappointed.” – Smut Clyde
“Is Beato aware of the countless tons of single-use plastic waste that his institute (and all the others) produce every year for churning out yet more garbage in the form of fake research papers?” – Aneurus Inconstans
Schneider Shorts 29.12.2023 – 10 most-read stories of 2023, Bik picking on Italians, with silly editorial notes and anti-aging cures for rich and poor.
“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
“…the best evidence for the existence of VSELs is the dismal failure of all the other much-vaunted stem-cell therapies to deliver on their promises. Since it is axiomatic that some stem-cell therapy must work, the successful cell-types must be the ones that haven’t been tried yet, which leaves VSELs.”- Smut Clyde
Schneider Shorts 5.05.2023 – Spanish Saudi Shills: a trilogy, state-of-the-art tools to cure diabetes, papermilling gang moves to new Elsevier journal, congrats on 1000 citations, with legitimate images, imaginary American co-authors, rapamycin longevity advice, catfish as COVID-19 origin, and finally, why German universities sponsor Hindawi.
“Without specific and credible allegations of research misconduct, MIT is unable to take any action.”
Schneider Shorts 7.04.2023 – Spanish King of Papermillers sacked, a bully ecologist in Yale, how to give healthy people cancer, with a stem cell cure approved in Germany, publishers’ different approaches to research integrity, and what to do about another journal blacklist.
Schneider Shorts 17.02.2023 – Lancet’s concern for murderous surgeon, a world-renowned innovator comes to Czechia, multi-hazard approach to engineering publishing, chronic lymericks at MDPI, fake Georgians at Hindawi, with cinnamon magic from Iran, a pharma giant with a new job, and finally, Nobel facials for you to buy (if you can afford them).
Schneider Shorts 19.08.2022 – a Colossal wanker goes Oz, a whistleblower sues MIT over agro-fraud, another sacked whistleblower to be deported, a grape industry shill with nutrition advice, an editor guides Aneurus through proper channels, papermills invade even preprints, with camel dung, a PhD in masturbation, and secret self-assembling graphene nano-antennas in mRNA vaccines!
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