By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts 15.08.2025 – how to cite only good sources, two Californian professors and one Canadian victimised by time-warp conspiracies, with a Nature Exclusive, Cell Press refusing retraction, a German professor papermilling, and Manhattan Project of Eugenics!
Schneider Shorts 24.05.2024 – an Australian dean helps a young man from Iran, two British professors discover Asian papermills, Nature opens a smoking lounge, German doctors suffer tragic retractions, a special issue pulled due to Swedish professor, and how Cell Press bends over backwards for an angry old German man.
Ashani Weeraratna and Valerie Weaver, two women in STEM, harassed by trolls.
“I feel that these continuous comments(s) may be pushing the boundaries, which should also be a concern for PubPeer.” – Dr Richard Vierstra
Schneider Shorts 23.07.2021: Pentagon declares war on old age, Cell being sneaky, French authorities not sure how to deal with fraud, with a suicide gene, more coffee, Neanderthals being stupid again and another Austrian genius saving the world from COVID-19.
What better distraction than the COVID-19 pandemic to revive one of the spookiest parasites in cancer research? AACR uses the COVID-19 cover to award Michael Karin, for his over 50-paper-strong record of data fakery.
Are you excited about the massive research integrity hypocrisy around China’s first immunologist Xuetao Cao? Smut Clyde will explain to you the Flaw Cytometry and other naughtiness they uncovered, led by Elisabeth Bik.
Anne Dejean is a very important cancer researcher in France. To whom shall she bequeath her high-achieving Institut Pasteur lab when she retires? The German shooting star Oliver Bischof is the right man to continue Dejean’s craft.
Oxford professor Dame Kay E Davies, DBE FRS FMedSci, edits the journal Human Molecular Genetics. If you are a scientist who likes Photoshop, but afraid to get caught, give Dame Kay a call!
The University of Manchester found out that someone has secretly manipulated data in the papers of their star cancer researcher, Richard Marais. Who might that be?
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