Heads and hearts
“Imagine what effect might ensue from a young donor body (say, in her 20’s) nourishing with her young blood 24/24, 7/7 the head of an aging body recipient!” – Sergio Canavero
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
“Imagine what effect might ensue from a young donor body (say, in her 20’s) nourishing with her young blood 24/24, 7/7 the head of an aging body recipient!” – Sergio Canavero
Schneider Shorts 30.08.2024 – lawyers advise universities about PubPeer, a spoiled brat in Liverpool gets a new toy, an Italian role model gets her first retractions, low standards in Cleveland, with fake and stolen identities, a failed defamation lawsuit, and finally, how US government supports new brains for immortality.
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.
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.
Schneider Shorts 22.03.2023 – honesty researcher faces the sack, misconduct charges lifted in Norway, misconduct charges in Sweden, with anti-canadian xenophobia, publishers showing understanding for all kinds of fraud, and finally, with anti-aging advice for dogs and men.
Schneider Shorts 29.12.2023 – 10 most-read stories of 2023, Bik picking on Italians, with silly editorial notes and anti-aging cures for rich and poor.
“The entire proposition is crazier than a barrel-full of rabid wolverines that have spent a week self-medicating with bath-salts and angel dust. Yet there is this burgeoning literature on mitochondrial transplants!” – Smut Clyde
Schneider Shorts of 8.09.2023 – a German party has science on its side, a retired fraudster sanctioned by ORI, a journal scrutinised, putin’s daughter publishes in MDPI, with high- and low-profile retractions, an Israeli-super-genius, brain hacks, and finally, why russo-iranian papermillers are false friends.
Schneider Shorts 25.08.2023 – a Nobelist opens an anti-aging business, a journal remains evil under new leadership, with retractions for former ERC president, an Oz bully and other fraudsters, embarrassing corrections or inactions elsewhere, frontiers in communism, and finally, a victim of clinical abuse releases documentary.
Schneider Shorts 4.08.2023 – Royal Academy terrorizing critic of St Carlos of Oviedo, litigious honesty experts proven as total frauds, brain disorders and bodybuilding, with spaghetti tumours, bullying and harassment, several retractions (one 22 years delayed), and finally, an Italian mentee of US bigwig informs about correct thinking.


