A Yale fossil
As a Rainmaker friend of Richard Flavell once said many times, “What is the problem here?”
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
As a Rainmaker friend of Richard Flavell once said many times, “What is the problem here?”
Schneider Shorts 6.09.2024 – Bochum professor sues me for scamferencer’s honour, For Better Science banned in Italy, Czech cheater vindicated, Irish cheater protected, Dana Farber CEO resigns, with Germany’s highly cited, retractions for a Nobelist, an ex-dean, and three Virginia crooks, plus some eugenics and the microbiome of all diseases.
Schneider Shorts 29.03.2024 – German medical elites special: with Gender, Diversity and a retirement party in Ulm, an incomplete investigation in Göttingen, naughty mentees of a Heidelberg pharmacologist, plus investigation outcomes in USA, King’s first retraction, and why you must have a coffee right now.
Schneider Shorts 1.12.2023 – MDPI apprehends a thief, Sicilian fraudster’s trouble with women, a papermill fraudster appointed as EiC, a Dutch research fraudster ushers fascism in, retractions for some and concerns for others, and finally, a science terrorist undermining Belfast!
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.
Schneider Shorts 17.03.2023 – St Carlos of Cnidaria in PNAS, appropriate action on fraud in Grenoble, protests in Groningen, how Alzheimer’s, old age, obesity, COVID-19 and depression got solved, with Taras the Papermiller, publishing business setbacks, and finally, retractions galore!
Schneider Shorts 8.12.2022 – with a harassed nano-fabricator in France, growing pressure on Stanford president, a resigned dean of Weill Cornell, a resigned psychology editor, a Chilean cheater suspended for 2 months, Elon’s monkey torture, stolen fossils kerfuffle, Elisabeth Bik finds an Easter Egg, and as usual, scholarly publishers misbehaving.
The part of the fraud affair not included on Retraction Watch
Augustine Choi is Dean of Weill Cornell and a misunderstood genius. He discovered that carbon monoxide is a cure for all possible diseases, just add a bit of Photoshop.



