By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts 26.09.2025 – Why papermilling is good: perspectives from university’s legal counsel in Denmark, Nobel laureate and his mentee in UK, Pakistani scholars in Poland, with a cure for Huntington’s and resurrected dodo, and finally, why all hope is lost for US immunology.
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 15.12.2023 – historical fraud deemed inconclusive, Sir Gilles transits from neuroscience to biofuels, why most Ioannidis findings are false, with media’s heroes in Italy, Belgium and UK, corrective trolling, belated retractions, money as anti-aging drug, and a true expert resolves the Vickers Curse.
“People should believe in themselves; to search the treasures that they have inside and use them to reinterpret the role.” – Paolo Madeddu,, Professor and Chair at University of Bristol.
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