Fady & Marian, or How to share a Photoshop license
“If you need a graphics designer with basic photo shop skills to tune up your data, they might be the right team for the job!” – Fabian Wittmers
Tag: China
Shocked, angered and appalled
“I have been following the comments on PubPeer, and have been shocked, angered and appalled by the issues […] there can be no explanation for this other than systemic fraud “- Prof Gareth Williams, UCL
Pest Management
” I have been receiving too much of these types of papers lately and I think we all are wasting our time with made up science” = Orthopyxis integra
A Sting Inside a Papermill
“It’s clear that any academically corrupt individual — particularly one with editorial connections — could easily “place” dozens of these Anzen products into indexed journals and collect a handsome side income in the process.” – Csaba Szabo
Schneider Shorts 9.05.2025 – The end of your comfort zone
Schneider Shorts 9.05.2025 – Chinese professor in Germany accused of espionage, genius papermiller sanctioned in Norway, Swedish cheater can’t stop cheating, a Big Pharma career cut short, awful corrections in Wiley and Elsevier, a curcumin fail, and finally, old men back with anti-aging tips.
Yale Fayle
“An attractive new prospect: Install the Chinese paper mill directly at Yale University, where research oversight is presumably less stringent than at the PRC and NIH funds are more easily accessed to piss up the wall.” – Sholto David
The Miracle-Polymer-Dumbsterfire
“Read the damn paper and look at the figures before publishing it; it’s not that hard” – Archasia belfragei
A stupid and foolish question
“Those noises have no scientific meanings, suggest nothing, forming no any judgments, and have no any influences on the experimental results. ” – Professor Deng‐Guang Yu
Slipshod Self-service Ethnopharmacology
“Since Journal of Ethnopharmacology sees no reason to reject bear bile powder research like other scientific journals, that means you can expect to see anything there” – Parashorea tomentella
Heads and hearts
“Imagine what effect might ensue from a young donor body (say, in her 20’s) nourishing with her young blood 24/24, 7/7 the head of an aging body recipient!” – Sergio Canavero
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