The Misadventures of Luca and Bart
“this is all very time consuming and damaging. It starts to look like a witch hunt.”” – Bart De Strooper
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
“this is all very time consuming and damaging. It starts to look like a witch hunt.”” – Bart De Strooper
Schneider Shorts 22.12.2023 – trachea transplanters in London wish to continue, retractions happening when hope was lost, Welsh approach to papermilling, with an Italian researcher harassed, a role model debunked, and finally, with Sholto’s Science Police Christmas special!
Schneider Shorts 15.12.2023 – historical fraud deemed inconclusive, Sir Gilles transits from neuroscience to biofuels, why most Ioannidis findings are false, with media’s heroes in Italy, Belgium and UK, corrective trolling, belated retractions, money as anti-aging drug, and a true expert resolves the Vickers Curse.
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.
Schneider Shorts 21.04.2023 – due diligence in Germany, cancer biotech bonanza in USA, python expert in Iran, highly cited researchers in Spain, English professor in russia, Italian fraudster in an unexpected company, with eugenics, racism and war-mongering, and finally, why a papermill fabrication can’t be retracted.
Schneider Shorts 10.03.2023 – two science bigwigs caught with unaffected conclusions, return of superconductive fraud in Nature, other examples of who’s trustworthy and who isn’t, what Stanford president knew, some retractions, MDPI fighting papermills, a German journal can’t stop papermilling, and finally, who blew up Nord Stream pipelines?

