An expert criticism by fraudsters and antivaxxers: the case of PubPeer
“A concerning trend is the rise of “hyper-skepticism”” – ChatGPT
Tag: COPE
Schneider Shorts 28.03.2025 – You can be forgiven even in failure
Schneider Shorts 28.03.2025 – a sexual harassers special, a multimillionaire sponsors a sleuth-on-a-leash, COPE officer loses her only paper, how to troll Elsevier, with cheaters in Florida and breakthroughs in degenerative medicine in Japan and USA.
Concerns for whites, retractions for the rest?
“Expressions of Concern may be used as an interim notice to flag a potential issue that may be ultimately resolved with another amendment outcome (e.g. retraction or correction) or they may remain as the final outcome in cases where conclusive evidence cannot be obtained. ” – COPE
Schneider Shorts 10.01.2025 – Science needs to be pure, free of politics and transnational
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 19.1.2024 – Erroneous and should be ignored
Schneider Shorts 19.01.2024 – a guest Short by Robert Cockburn, Belgian research ethics, Joe gives Joe a million, a million and a quarter to find the leak, papermillers big and small, and finally, with COPE retractions guidelines biting back.
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Schneider Shorts 18.11.2022 – Race to the bottom
Schneider Shorts 18.11.2022 – a Spanish university hunts “Nazis”, Indian elites flock to a scamference, publishers embracing fraud, WHO embracing papermills, the fall of COPE, with a Dutch sexual harasser, Saudi and Egyptian data forgers, other science elites in a race to the bottom, and a diet advice to eat sand.
Peter Wilmshurst vs Macchiarini cult at The Lancet
The 2008 Lancet paper of Paolo Macchiarini and Martin Birchall about the world first trachea transplant might end up retracted. Until recently, the journal’s editor Richard Horton used to ignore and suppress “non peer-reviewed” evidence, but due to combined pressure of activism, media and politics, things started to move.
COPE, the publishers’ Trojan horse, calls to abolish retractions
Four private scientists without any agenda whatsoever published a research result preprint on the portal BioRxiv. The “new results” reportedContinue Reading
Academic self-plagiarism: misconduct or a literary art form?
Plagiarism, the misappropriation of the (usually written) work of others in order to present it as one’s own, is universally regarding asContinue Reading
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