By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts 15.05.2026 – Switzerland shocked to learn the whistleblower was right, German newspaper restores sex abuse story one quack sued against, a German champion of publication ethics corrects his paper, don’t mess with Texas science (coffee included!), and finally, how almost everyone fell for a fake gold medal from a fake institute.
Schneider Shorts 13.02.2026 – a Finnish nightmare for a Spanish scholar, a Portuguese Vice-Rector in trouble, a cure for cancer from US government, with a role model for women in German medicine, one champion of research ethics in England and another in Italy, and finally, why you must have a coffee (or a tea) now.
Schneider Shorts 2.01.2026 – a young PhD student in London, a police raid in Madrid, things you can achieve with semaglutide, with Alzheimer’s reversed, Springer Nature taking action, and why you must have chocolate and coffee now.
Schneider Shorts 25.04.2025 – a Canadian gynaecologist examines himself, a perpetrator trolls a Science Guardian, with Italian retractions, special rules for special people, and finally, do coffee and chocolate belong in the lab?
Schneider Shorts 28.02.2025 – what Scottish professor and Italian MP have in common, a Croatian genius and his friends, a US inventor with sponge and teabag, with Elsevier afraid of a stalker, a premature correction, sexy retractions, and finally, what to consume against obesity and diabetes.
Schneider Shorts 24.01.2025 – a retirement party in Bristol, a Canadian without worries, papermilling across the Irish sea and other things MDPI lets through, with a pile of retractions, a corrected cure for Parkinson’s, and finally, coffee, milk and strawberries to avoid death.
Schneider Shorts 10.01.2024 – the most influential person in Polish medicine, breaking bad news to Germany’s star oncologist, with Egyptian cheaters, artistic achievements, a COPE investigation, coffee and mayonnaise, and finally, The Guardian view on dog anti-aging.
Schneider Shorts 25.10.2024 – successful papermilling in Canada and Germany, less successful papermilling in Spain and Ukraine, an open letter to Springer, UK Biobank letting bad guys in, with a dead psychologist, a Spanish cancer warrior in France, an evaporated water institute, haggling Vietnamese, and finally, why coffee and alcohol are good news.
Schneider Shorts 21.06.2024 – Nobelist hounded again, retractions for stem cell and superconductor zombies, nine things melatonin does, EMBO being unstoppable, with coffee and cheese, a Declaration of Marseille, an obituary to Chinese virologist, plus proud scamferencers, a German breakthrough in Iran, and finally, what it takes to become associate editor.
Schneider Shorts 29.03.2024 – German medical elites special: with Gender, Diversity and a retirement party in Ulm, an incomplete investigation in Göttingen, naughty mentees of a Heidelberg pharmacologist, plus investigation outcomes in USA, King’s first retraction, and why you must have a coffee right now.
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