By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts 2.07.2021: fraudulent COVID-19 quackery gets learned society approval, China colonizes Mars, CNRS explains the difference between plagiarism and “unacknowledged borrowings”, with Botox against depression from Germany, Nasal Telomere Extension from Harvard and Eugenics Superhero Vaccines from Stanford, and Smut Clyde slandering Ukrainians behind my back.
Schneider Shorts 25.06.2021: telomere stretching in Milan and other COVID-19 cures, Best Lab Leak Ever Award, the elusive Pandolfi, coffee and chocolate, and hooray, Raoult & Chabriere finally announced on Twitter to sue yours truly in Marseille.
A critical review of a recent book about chloroquine guru Didier Raoult and the many French politicians who let him operate above the law.
Schneider Shorts 18.06.2021: job openings (but not in Marseille!), old Soviet bioweapon lab leaks, eternal life with coffee, pregnant male rats, Chinese paper mill dramas, and how Wiley may have accidentally revealed the identities of Smut Clyde and Tiger BB8!
Schneider Shorts 11.06.2021: Mayo Clinic quietly passing on problematic professors, UK and Switzerland defining research misconduct, COVID-19 quackeries and how sperm and faeces can make you afraid.
Mad chloroquine guru Didier Raoult is becoming an embarrassment for France, who would’ve known.
A lab leak theory of the COVID-19 origins has enough circumstantial evidence and historical basis to support the urgent need for an independent and unbiased investigation. But until recently, scientists dismissed lab leak as a conspiracy theory. In public at least.
Schneider Shorts 4.06.2021: Israeli Scientists jokes, the business model of Nature Medicine, Retraction Watch exposing a fraudster, life extension by naturopathy, and a dirty old man.
Pier Paolo Pandolfi’s secret job in Italy found!
Schneider Shorts 28.05.2021: research misconduct investigations concluded and in process, real experts opining on Chinese paper mills, some more “bullshit”, environmental pollution in Russia, and Russian men obsessed with eternal life.
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