By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts 9.06.2023 – Italy’s greatest scholar dedicates his life to training Asian papermillers, concern for Texas fraudster, stem cell embarrassment, retraction a decade delayed, with more retractions, papermill promo, and finally, Germany’s pesticide shill with whitewashed PubPeer record.
“PCR reactions run on agarose gels commonly look similar due to artifacts introduced by the agarose gel and comb.” Dr Elsa R Flores, Associate Director, Moffitt Cancer Center
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.
“In October of this year, the scientist who closed the American laboratory, disposed of related assets in the United States, and returned to Shanghai with his wife to start a business, officially opened the mode of “wholeheartedly” returning to his country to start a business.”
Schneider Shorts 22.10.2021: acupuncture in Nature, creationism in Scientific American, proxalutamide scandal reaches Brazilian Senate, a surprise new US academy member, entirely valid conclusions of photoshop fraud, MDPI reaches level X, colchicine doesn’t work for COVID-19 but fake Russian statistics do, plus Russian paper mills and a stuck Sputnik V.
Schneider Shorts 5.08.2021: ivermectin-flavoured cigarettes, homeopathy, Ayurveda, and the scientists I have harassed in the past, the present and plan to harass in the future.
“IU School of Medicine scientists discover ‘game-changer’ treatment for triple negative breast cancer”
The new ERC President Mauro Ferrari used to closely collaborate with two very controversial cancer researchers at MD Anderson in Texas: Anil Sood and Gabriel Lopez-Beerestein. Will that experience affect ERC’s already wanting stance on research integrity?
“The graduate school at University of Texas MD Anderson does not care and keep sending students to his lab, Sood is a member of faculty there. RIO at MDACC doesn’t care because witnesses either left the country or are too afraid to speak.”
The MD Anderson Cancer Center, part of the University of Texas and located in Houston, is a giant hub ofContinue Reading
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