By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts 7.06.2024 – Papermillers never die, New Declaration of Helsinki, a failed crusade for scientific truth, with two “doing the right thing” retractions, sole culprit found 11 years later, a publisher cleanup, and finally, with a Nobelist’s grandson who wants to sell you pomegranate supplements.
“Prof. Grzegorz Królczyk, Vice-Rector for Science and Development of the Opole University of Technology, was elected President of the Council for Innovation in Higher Education and Science.”
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,
“[Timon Rabczuk] is happily accepting 2 million euro of European money, whilst at the same time optimizing his return-on-investment on Vietnamese affiliation scam and cashing in on his ‘highly cited researcher’ accolades by also posing as King Saud researcher.” – Maarten van Kampen
“The business of selling authorships and citations needs a steady supply of paper-shaped vehicles. It is most efficient to produce these in assembly lines that focus on a narrow topic.” – Maarten van Kampen
Meet Mohammad Taheri, PhD, a humble PhD student in Jena, Germany, and his equally unremarkable Iranian associate Dr Soudeh Ghafouri-Fard.
“Go and change the globe to a more positive future instead”
“We are living in a faked world and there is a lot of un-verified avatars. “, Philippe Garrigues, EiC
“Among these candidates that you “vetted” were people with no expertise in the field (either 0 or 1 publication), people with longer PubPeer profiles and more retractions than most people have articles on their CVs, and people whose names appear as authors on sold paper sites. ” – Jillian Goldfarb
Schneider Shorts 6.10.2023 – what really happened to deleted US professor, a scientist in France needs IT assistance, rigorous peer review at work, with hand-made spectra, sneaked references and many retractions, for Nobelists, papermills and other cheaters, big and small.
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