By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts 10.01.2024 – the most influential person in Polish medicine, breaking bad news to Germany’s star oncologist, with Egyptian cheaters, artistic achievements, a COPE investigation, coffee and mayonnaise, and finally, The Guardian view on dog anti-aging.
Schneider Short 19.07.2024 – a good russian in Estonia, Iranian papermill special with an autophagy god and regime’s top elites, biotech founders sacked, a German in Portugal corrects papers, and finally, when Nature and Science papers become irrelevant.
Schneider Shorts 2.02.2024 – Three stories about Dana Farber (including a Nobelist!), two stories about the Lille papermille (including a game!), with an “honest” plant scientist, doctors being rewarded, amazing corrections and informative retractions, and how another Nobelist’s cell therapy business ended up unsold.
Schneider Shorts 8.12.2023 – St Carlos flees to Paris again, eye-opening ophthalmology in London, with naughty editors, retractions for papermillers and for German medical elites, some brain food, and finally, a toast to science!
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.
Schneider Shorts 14.07.2023 – a Nobel-groomed German phoney in London, a Romanian papermilling thief, and a Spanish psychopath all protected by their universities, Harvard’s looney in news again, with Unesco’s blunder, insights into Elsevier’s sausage factory, some retractions, and finally, how to communicate with PubPeer critics in academic manner.
Schneider Shorts 21.04.2023 – due diligence in Germany, cancer biotech bonanza in USA, python expert in Iran, highly cited researchers in Spain, English professor in russia, Italian fraudster in an unexpected company, with eugenics, racism and war-mongering, and finally, why a papermill fabrication can’t be retracted.
What do moth pheromones on one side have to do with cancer research, petrochemistry, materials science, e-commerce, psychology, forestry and gynaecology on the other? They are separated by just one citation!
“‘More than 80 articles and H-index over 25 (Scopus) have been achieved’.” – M.K. Ahmed
“No, none of my data is forged.” – Ahmed Esmail Shalan
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