By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
“The academic career of D’Orazio is tightly coupled to that of Karimipour since she hosted him at Sapienza. Of the 57 papers she declared authorship for, 25 (44%) are published together with Karimipour.” – Maarten van Kmapen
“all our PubPeer citations can be taken care of by submitting erratums and corrections.” – Prof Kalipada Pahan
“the rarest, most sought-after token of recognition is when the Chen brothers steal your identity to use as a fictive co-author on one of their plagiarism gallimaufreys. For instance, “Bunnitru Daleanu” was based on (and memorialises) the nonpareil Rumanian mathematician Dumitru Baleanu – now resident in Turkey” – Smut Clyde
Meet Mohammad Taheri, PhD, a humble PhD student in Jena, Germany, and his equally unremarkable Iranian associate Dr Soudeh Ghafouri-Fard.
“These people are anti-Cassandras… they are optimistic and always wrong, receiving endless interviews about the censorship of their views, while their confident opinionation is always taken respectively by other Public Intellectuals because they are Serious People.” – Smut Clyde
“Go and change the globe to a more positive future instead”
French nanotechnologists Sabine Szunerits and Rabah Boukherroub put EU Commission’s money to good use. The EU cannot afford a papermill gap to Iran and China!
Schneider Shorts 24.11.2023 – science advances one funeral at a time, journal editors vs Trieste fraud, qualifications you need in Texas, half-hearted retractions and non-retractions, a Bielefeld Conspiracy, and finally, with cures for autism and all brain disorders.
Schneider Shorts 23.06.2023 – Italian killer surgeon gets sentenced to 2.5 years in Sweden, Harvard’s honesty expert exposed as fraudster, German university refuses to investigate papermiller, with ACS being naughty again, anti-aging breakthroughs in MDPI, and finally, an accidental sickness in Wuhan in November 2019.
Schneider Shorts 16.06.2023 – an evaluation in Strasbourg finds a flyer, trash science from Rome, trash science from Harvard, cures for Long COVID and old age, with a baroque art sale, Latvian cooking recipes, informative Frontiers retractions, and finally, the mystery of who blew up the dam.
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