Egyptian Toxicology Mortal Combat
“Stupid people do stupid things, After all it was an Egyptian who once told me: “10% editing is acceptable as long as we didn’t modify the significant ” – Sholto David
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
“Stupid people do stupid things, After all it was an Egyptian who once told me: “10% editing is acceptable as long as we didn’t modify the significant ” – Sholto David
Schneider Shorts 23.08.2024 – why an mpox drug failed, Slovak professor’s dirty secret, Italian alpha male’s second retraction, Kazakh-Hungarian collaboration spammed, with confusion about sold authorships, tricky assays, a book of curcumin, and finally, with ACS setting priorities straight.
“your scatter gun approach has undermind a process that is undertaken confidentially […] It is sad that you are determined to undermine people’s reputations in the way you do.” – Queen’s University of Belfast to Sholto David.
“My former and current lab members can attest that I have lectured the importance of scientific rigor and image rigor in our meetings several times each year.” – Andrew Z Wang
“Every now and again, it is a good idea to open the door of the clown car that is MD Anderson, and see who climbs out. Today is the turn of Kapil N. Bhalla. If you say his name quickly, it sounds a bit like “capybara”” – Sholto David
“The mice probably wouldn’t care whether the experiment they suffered and died for was meaningful or not, but it does seem to matter to me. “- Sholto David
Schneider Shorts 16.02.2024 – a doctor sacked for death of patients cures cancer in Austria, science with sell-by date, Italian geniuses cracking cancer, autism and Alzheimer’s, mass retraction of totalitarian science, an incomplete Frontiers retraction, and finally, a Ukrainian genius betrayed by Iranian friends.
Schneider Shorts 26.01.2024 – Harvard story explodes in US media, a cheater sues former student, with rat torturers in Italy, publishers being naughty, a special editorial achievement, Nigerian scams, an elusive Greek behind retractions, and why all Germans must publish in Frontiers now.
“Imagine what mistakes might be found in the raw data if anyone was allowed to look!” – Sholto David
Schneider Shorts 22.12.2023 – trachea transplanters in London wish to continue, retractions happening when hope was lost, Welsh approach to papermilling, with an Italian researcher harassed, a role model debunked, and finally, with Sholto’s Science Police Christmas special!
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