By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts 27.12.2024 – Most-read articles of 2024, on dangers of social media, universities in Ireland and Czechia educating sleuths about fraud, naughty editors at Elsevier, a russian ork in USA disposes partner and two papers, more retractions for YouTube couple, and finally, Germany’s New Year resolutions which involve MDPI!
Schneider Shorts 22.11.2024 – a witch-hunter’s obituary, a Nobelist awarded and awarding, a dirty old man protected in Marseille, mTORman funded in Czechia, a Polish mayor arrested, a superconductor wunderkind sacked, with Austro-Romanian papermilling, and retractions for various important men.
“I was asked to pay in bitcoin to avoid retraction”. – Zbigniew Leonowicz
Schneider Shorts 17.11.2023 – a sexual harasser comes to Prague, cover-ups in London and Florence, with a Dutch scam, many retractions, Alzheimer’s infectively uncorked, and finally, another Alzheimer’s superstar exposed as a fraud.
“I could not comprehend the situation where a university picks up on individuals with an extraordinary and sterling performance and basically destroy one of the top European institutions. ” – Raj Varma
Four years after Ashutosh Tiwari’s scamferences and research fraud were exposed, his impressive-sounding yet fictional “International Association of Advanced Materials”, or IAAM, still opens doors, hearts and wallets.
Schneider Shorts 28.01.2022 – A special focus on the research fraud meltdown in Brno, Ajan’s new scams, with an Elsevier antivaxxer in Greece, Vrije Universiteit learns about human rights, and Science has spoken: cannabis is the cure for the pandemic.
“Please, can you tell me more about the web page and mechanism behind? Is there any “scheme” of scanning published papers?” asks Professor Vojtech Adam. Yes, it’s Elisabeth Bik.
“I should remind you that the editorial offices that investigated your allegations did not found any evidence of scientific misconduct or data fabrication. In my opinion, your allegation may bear the elements of defamation and false accusation” – Prof Radek Zboril
This is a guest post by two whistleblowers from the Palacky University in Olomouc. In the centre of the growing research misconduct and retaliation scandal: the nanotechnology professor Radek Zboril
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