By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts 20.03.2026 – a mysterious German “professor” accused of horrible sex crimes but defended by German justice, 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 8.08.2025 – publishers fighting papermills, retractions for an innocent man in Tennessee, an unemployed couple in Indiana, and a Korean award-winner, with an exclusive anti-aging conference, a dodgy startup, and finally, how to deal with critics.
“I know you cannot understand such matters, since you appear to have strong mother-related problems that most likely have denied you of a satisfactory sexual life”, _ Enrico Sciubba, Editor-in-Chief
“The academic career of D’Orazio is tightly coupled to that of Karimipour since she hosted him at Sapienza. Of the 57 papers she declared authorship for, 25 (44%) are published together with Karimipour.” – Maarten van Kmapen
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