From COVID-19 to Lab-Grown Meat
Enterprising Israeli Scientists show how these things are connected.
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Enterprising Israeli Scientists show how these things are connected.
Schneider Shorts of 14.01.2022 – cannabis for COVID-19, Retraction Watch catches two lady fraudsters, with Spain’s science elites, Portugal’s greatest cancer researcher, a successful pig heart, Frontiers swamped by papermills, lab leak not always a conspiracy theory, and a dirty old man in Marseille unleashing a mob against own daughter.
Миру – Мир-19!
Schneider Shorts 24.12.2021 – Join our founder and CEO for a Yuletide party with chocolate, coffee, rotten cassava, autistic stools, schizophrenic minibrains, senolytics and antioxidants, and a scary RoboFish! Merry Winter Soltice!
Merry Christmas from PNAS
Schneider Shorts 17.12.2021 – Russian mathematicians plead for support of abused colleague, bullying MRC boss to head EMBO, two scientists retracting their second paper, another Uyghur genomics paper retracted, mass-retractions at papermill-infested journal, COVID-19 cure from Florida, and a dead harasser’s sister fundraising to sue his victims.
Schneider Shorts 10 December 2021 – the incredible clinical partners of Cassava Sciences, Duke University expands quack operations, bullies bulling bullies at Max Planck Society, French COVID-19 suppository cancelled but we can target telomeres instead, plus there’s always oleandrin, Nature has a new joke journal, Norilsk, the most polluted place on Earth, and finally: why you must never refuse sex to mTOR man.
Schneider Shorts 3.12.2021 – Elisabeth Bik finally gets the Maddox Prize, Russia takes a dump on its science again, one ivermectin trial begins as another one stops, proxalutamide vouchsafed by stellar experts in Italy, Spiderman was never a Canada 150 Research Chair, and why some unethical papers get retracted by heroic editors.
If you oppose vaccines, you will want “The Stöcker”!
Henry Markram deployed his Blue Brain supercomputer to crack COVID-19, thanks to Open Access and Frontiers. He now announces to use the technology to “address so many other diseases, accelerate science, and help save the planet from climate change”





