By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts 11.04.2025 – US neuroscientist still shell-shocked by Italian postdoc’s fraud, a fantasy wolf de-exticted, an expert investigation in Berlin, and with retractions for past and current MD Anderson researchers, a German-Iranian papermiller, and a Mexican victim of persecution.
“There are no capital requirements or significant technological barriers, anyone can create papers by rewriting already published works, either themselves or with the assistance of ChatGPT or other software. With a Telegram channel or WhatsApp group the papermiller can easily organise the sale of authorship” – Nick Wise
Schneider Shorts 30.08.2024 – lawyers advise universities about PubPeer, a spoiled brat in Liverpool gets a new toy, an Italian role model gets her first retractions, low standards in Cleveland, with fake and stolen identities, a failed defamation lawsuit, and finally, how US government supports new brains for immortality.
One shooting and one falling star of University Clinic Tübingen. Meet the research ethics champion Julia Skokowa and the eternally affiliated Renaissance Man Reza Akhavan-Sigari,
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