Nathan Cofnas’s “race realism” is pseudoscience
“If there’s someone having a negative impact on science, it is Cofnas, not his critics. ” – Pieter Beck
Tag: Belgium
Schneider Shorts 28.08.2026 – Liberalism’s fertility problem
Schneider Shorts 28.08.2026 – racism affair in Ghent explodes in all directions, a German university deals with a Nazi doctor, another German university has been rigging Wikipedia, retractions for scholars in Italy and USA, and finally, a new antibody kerfuffle uncovered.
Schneider Shorts 31.07.2026 – Stackable micro-credentials
Schneider Shorts 31.07.2026 – trans children abused in Norway, a racist supported in Belgium, a mega-cheater rules English universities, a questionable female role model awarded in USA, with an ill-informed version of how Sage retractions happened, cures for cancer and autism, and finally, you’ll never believe the real reason why fruit and veg are good for you!
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
The Three Wise Deans of Islamabad
“Here is the story about one of those institutions where nearly all senior staff members including professors, associate professors and at least 3 former Deans are exposed on PubPeer with extensive evidence of fraud in multiple papers.” – Dayo Maor
See no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil
Félix Sauvage tells how he blew the whistle on his collaborator: Sabine Szunerits
My Liège is not so vile a sin
“The Board of Ethics and Scientific Integrity of University of Liège investigated the overlap between the aforementioned panels and recommended the article be corrected”
How Sampaolesi and Cossu cured Muscular Dystrophy with stem cells
Gather round children, and hear a fairy tale from the golden age of degenerative medicine.
Catherine Verfaillie, the Zombie Scientist of KU Leuven
Catherine Verfaillie is a zombie scientist: her past stem cell research long discredited, but she still is an influential and very well funded star of Belgian science. Now Elisabeth Bik had a fresh new look at Verfaillie’s papers
The stem cell faith healers, or magic inside your bone marrow
Bone marrow stem cells are magic, they can do everything. If you don’t believe it, you are simply a loserContinue Reading
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