Julius Caesar & Daria – Brazilian Tango in Stanford
The published research by Daria Mochly-Rosen and her mentee Julio CB Ferreira supports the theory that maybe Stanford is a bad place for science.
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
The published research by Daria Mochly-Rosen and her mentee Julio CB Ferreira supports the theory that maybe Stanford is a bad place for science.
Schneider Shorts 15.09.2023 – officially innocent scientists in Germany, USA and Sweden, Italian etnobotanist befriends Indian papermill, Harvard to sack first professor, with a successful and a failed biotech, a computer conspiring against editors, and finally, how Nature invented the climate change.
Welcome to the the William Harvey Research Institute in London. Meet two proteges of its founder, the late Nobelist Sir John Vane: Chris Thiemermann and Mauro Perretti. Then meet their own rotten mentees, especially Salvatore Cuzzocrea and Jesmond Dalli.
Schneider Shorts 7.07.2023 – MDPI internal file leaked, editors attempting to rat out whistleblowers, scientists proud of IAAM awards, Nobelitis strikes again, with cloning fraudster’s new business, biotech’s new anti-aging drug, bad rector in Sicily, and finally, one honest researcher demanding retraction of his own paper.
From mammoths to eugenics to anti-aging scams: god-impersonator George Church knows how to make money with bullshit.
“Without specific and credible allegations of research misconduct, MIT is unable to take any action.”
Schneider Shorts 13.01.2023 – confidential whitewashing in Australia, hallmarks of fraud in Cell, Nature journals welcome Count Facula and a Greek cheater, with FDA’s new Alzheimer’s drug, a German editor who can’t stop papermilling, an Italian art lover in Ohio, and why Smut Clyde will never get full credit.
Schneider Shorts 30.12.2022 – A lazy holiday Shorts with 11 most read articles on For Better Science of 2022, plus some tweets, and musings on war and climate change. See you next year! Слава Україні! Героям слава!
Schneider Shorts 25.11.2022 – how money trumps basic medical ethics for elite London universities, a Belgian failed scientist doing business in Korea, retractions overdue, forgiven or unavoided, plus horse racing, an Israeli image integrity software doing what it should, and a cool research integrity workshop in Liverpool.
“Having reviewed the Conflict of Interest disclosures made by Professor Frost, Professor Holmes and Dr Garcia-Perez, and having also reviewed additional information concerning their company, Melico, […] the College is satisfied that they have no undisclosed or unmanageable conflicts of interests” – Arts Bachelor (Honours)





