By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts 19.09.2025 – Schneider reported to German police, authorship disputes resolved in Switzerland, honesty researcher sued for double-fraud, a Romanian honoured by learned society, with a German in russia, post-mortem retractions, Brazilian brain damage, and finally, did you ever hear of bacterial mitochondria?
“Poking around PubMed (Dysdera the spider is always on the hunt for new hornet’s nests) [..], I came across one image in two papers by Eliezer Masliah. […] By a conservative count, I contributed to about 160 out of 300 slides in the final dossier” – Mu Yang
Schneider Shorts 20.09.2024 – A Californian man and his trusty clock, Oded’s Dad and other Israeli Scientists, first retractions for a French couple, an Indiana man and an Iranian papermiller, an Elsevier book facing removal, with funny corrections, ex-editor bemoaning a conspiracy and finally, with a concussion device getting pummelled.
Schneider Shorts 17.05.2024 -Britain’s research integrity chair investigates his first big case, Maarten debates Doubting Thomas, Springer retracts whole book, retractions for elites in Harvard and Uppsala, bad science causes cancer from covid, with Elsevier being naughty, Schneider found guilty in Liege, and why you must never open your door to a papermiller.
Hari Shanker & Aruna, a YouTube influencer couple in Sweden. With or without Rudolph the Red-Faced Liar. And with Anca and Dafin, two totally innocent and upright Romanians. Pushing pig brain juice an SS Nazi invented. You won’t find a better story for Christmas!
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