The Marco Ruggiero Quackopedia
“Ruggiero is an old hand at this plausibly-deniable Tergiversation Tango, having perfected it with his just-asking-questions Antivax AIDS denial-cake, both eating and f**king it.” – Smut Clyde
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
“Ruggiero is an old hand at this plausibly-deniable Tergiversation Tango, having perfected it with his just-asking-questions Antivax AIDS denial-cake, both eating and f**king it.” – Smut Clyde
Schneider Shorts 4.11.2022 – with a russian spy in Norway, an antisemite in Marseille, an antivax editor retired, various grumpy, disappointed and contrarian scientists, conflicts of interests which count and which don’t, a collection of whole, partial and withdrawn retractions, and a papermill sleuth celebrating himself.
Schneider Shorts 17.06.2022 – Italian fraudster retires with 7 retractions, Italian killer surgeon gets off 2/3 acquitted with a suspended sentence, his former partner in London wraps up stem cell scam, with probiotics against depression, WHO conspiracy theories, and Elsevier wallowing in antivaxxer covidiocies.
Schneider Shorts 13.05.2022 – three long shorts about various biomedical professors with very little ethics but with a lot of love for money, one long short about russia’s “bioweapon” Big Lie now including antivaxxery and antisemitism, and finally, some music!
“a scientific journal is not a social network, not even a newspaper. People reading papers in FCT are expected to be scientists with a good basis to distinguish between trash and science.” EiC Jose Luis Domingo on new paper by Peter McCullough
Schneider Shorts of 18.03.2022 – an international covidiot party in Marseille, 3 Italian men of science one shouldn’t touch with a bargepole, plagiarist rector resigns, a Belgian cancer cure, and Putin upgrades genocide in Ukraine with plans of ecocide.
Schneider Shorts 11.03.2022 – Fascist Russia commits genocide in Ukraine, with possible nuclear plans as the world watches helplessly, American Heart Association advises to drink wine, Frontiers warns of COVID vaccines, Motherisk crook gets another retraction, and Bob Gallo tells you what to think of COVID origins.
Schneider Shorts 4.03.2022 – my Macchiarini reporting passed peer review, scientists in Fascist Russia sanctioned by German funder, St Carlos of Oviedo and fellow crooks wallow in forced apologies, trash science and misconduct slander from elite virologist, MDPI loves antivaxxery, Elsevier loves fossil fuels, Wiley loves papermills, and Smut Clyde loves mushrooms.
Schneider Shorts 11.02.2022 – Farewell to a racist and to an antivax homeopath, lame mice walking and other breakthroughs by Israeli Scientists, return of vitamin D and ivermectin, how to treat brain disorders with senolytics, supplements and sh*t, plus President’s science czar discovers one shouldn’t bully outside of academia, and anthropologists congratulate Harvard peer on over 40 years of sexual harassment.
Schneider Shorts 28.01.2022 – A special focus on the research fraud meltdown in Brno, Ajan’s new scams, with an Elsevier antivaxxer in Greece, Vrije Universiteit learns about human rights, and Science has spoken: cannabis is the cure for the pandemic.