A Book That Will Never Be Read
“I cannot shake the feeling that we find ourselves in a publisher-papermill complex, powered largely by public funding. ” – Michal Wojcik
Tag: AI
The subtleties a spectrograph would miss
“it seems the AI used for an anonymous commenter is not able to read the article and randomly comments on the article. […] Sometimes, we feel that some random person commenting on the article may not have the insight or technical expertise to evaluate the article. It seems your AI model used to write such comments is not fully operational and is making mistakes” – a scholar opines on Smut Clyde
Schneider Shorts 10.07.2026 – Research environment committed to rigor and honesty
Schneider Shorts 10.07.2026 – a bullying diva whitewashed in a Swiss travesty, the importance of AI for science, plus retractions for a legendary Italian fraudster in USA and scholars in New Zealand and Romania.
Burt! This bloke won’t Kaggle!
“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 – Read the statement on the duties of journalists and take it seriously!
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 Men Who Stare at Ketotic Cows
“The References dwell on bovine indigestion, seizures, and the work of N. Arunkumar.” – Smut Clyde, jazz-punk Klezmer musician.
