By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
“While papermills certainly pollute the literature the most in terms of numbers, I believe the spotlight should equally be on questionable research groups at top institutions, whose articles might have an even larger negative impact on society” – Aneurus Incostans
Schneider Shorts 11.07.2025 – an insulted, slandered and harassed Italian man in Zurich, a Saudi-sponsored Belgian man in Lausanne, with more Swiss (and British) correctness, more Nobel retractions, and finally, with a moa and mammoth safari on Mars.
Schneider Shorts 14.03.2025 – Fraud and misogyny from Indian scholars, bullies in Germany and in Belgium, first retractions for eyesight and Alzheimer’s researchers, a friendship turned sour over retraction, and finally, an Iranian antisemite sends threats to yours truly!
“If this book accomplishes anything, it should be to shatter the illusion that Alzheimer’s research is on solid footing and to prompt a long-overdue reckoning in the field. ” – Csaba Szabo
Schneider Shorts 4.10.2024 – Rapamycin advocate loses battle with cancer, Switzerland’s Twitter celebrity in trouble, Australia’s melanoma program run by two fraudsters, a papermilling dean in Canada, a harassed innocent angel in Mexico, a Belgian phantom, with book chapters tombstoned, retractions for stars in USA and Italy, and finally, with a failed drug to cure long COVID.
Schneider Shorts 26.07.2024 – a sleuth conference in Porto, one cat’s week of fame, retractions for various famous luminaries in UK, USA and Switzerland, and finally, a Jesus miracle of turning old mice into supermodels.
From Lesné’s public shame to successful role models of neuroscience like Aguzzi and Tessier-Lavigne.
Schneider Shorts 15.04.2022 – a resurrected career of a French biologist, a Spanish martyr saint takes revenge on two more apostate sinners, a limitless indulgence for sins past, present and future for a cancer cheater in Texas, Elsevier’s half-hearted exorcism of a Greek antivaxxer, papers to get rid of, and a self-righteous Italian diva in Zürich waving another sockpuppet.
Schneider Shorts 5.11.2021 – retractions, partial retractions and corrections, good Russian vaccines and bad western ones, Ayurveda in Germany, why alcoholism saves lives, old age smart-bombed, Daszak supervising himself, an old diva being nasty again, and a very special family business.
The prion researcher Adriano Aguzzi used to describe his Pubpeer critics as “lowlifes”, and himself as a victim of a lynch mob. But after Elisabeth Bik helped him find even more mistakes in his papers, Aguzzi changed his stance.
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