By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
“This is unedifying but illustrative on so many levels of how quickly papermills have parasitised the Open Science paradigm and strip-mined all its resources. It also illustrates how quickly the incantatory Worship Words of Machine Learning shut down the critical faculties of reviewers when included in a manuscript, convincing them that its ludicrous claims are merely restatements of what they already know.” – Smut Clyde
Schneider Shorts 15.05.2026 – Switzerland shocked to learn the whistleblower was right, German newspaper restores sex abuse story one quack sued against, a German champion of publication ethics corrects his paper, don’t mess with Texas science (coffee included!), and finally, how almost everyone fell for a fake gold medal from a fake institute.
“The References dwell on bovine indigestion, seizures, and the work of N. Arunkumar.” – Smut Clyde, jazz-punk Klezmer musician.
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