The Bielefeld Conspiracy
“During your studies, it should be taught that, for example, you critically question your data, handle it transparently and immediately disclose weak points.” – Prof Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
“During your studies, it should be taught that, for example, you critically question your data, handle it transparently and immediately disclose weak points.” – Prof Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus
Schneider Shorts 16.02.2024 – a doctor sacked for death of patients cures cancer in Austria, science with sell-by date, Italian geniuses cracking cancer, autism and Alzheimer’s, mass retraction of totalitarian science, an incomplete Frontiers retraction, and finally, a Ukrainian genius betrayed by Iranian friends.
“Bernd Müller-Röber […] had guest status in the MPI for Molecular Plant Physiology but this status has been terminated”
“There is so much money flowing through this system that I don’t see what will stop the network of papermills and corrupt editors.” – Nick Wise
“I am not angry with the post-publication surgery that the publisher performed on the affected papers after discovering the shenanigans, scrubbing off the names of spurious reviewers. Just very disappointed.” – Smut Clyde
Schneider Shorts of 5.01.2024 – with a role model for WomenInStem in Tübingen, a Swedish rector’s Saudi papermiller, universities in US and Europe still valuing scamference medals, medical society with special rules for special people, and why there’s nothing wrong with Chinese blood money
“For example, over the course of just a year, from 2021 to 2022, the Ren et al. team make a series of significant discoveries in Kidney disease.”
“There is another possibility, though… that C.-C. Sun is the papermill, supplying colleagues around Wuhan with variants of the same paper, with the condition that those donated manuscripts carry self-citation payloads.” – Smut Clyde
“I reviewed papers published in special issues of Hindawi journals that had corresponding authors from low- and middle-income countries. It seems, the APC waiver policy may be being abused by papermills” – Parashorea tomentella
Morty reviews a review, on an important topic and written by Belgian scholars. Turns out, it is mostly referencing fraudulent and papermilled trash from China.
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