By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts 10.02.2023 – an anonymous attack team harasses a Californian poet, a brothel with pipettes just for mTORman, Sicilian scholars fighting retractions, other Sicilian scholars going Egypt, with Photoshop classics, Antarctic predators, and yet another amazing correction by Wiley.
Schneider Shorts 3.02.2023 – German trachea transplanters forgot to retract 7 papers, a bullying psychologist in Sweden, a colossal wanker with a dodo, ERC thanks an expert, German EiC leaves havoc behind, an EMBO editor has some explaining to do, and finally, how ethics at Cambridge and Oxford University Presses work.
Schneider Shorts 30.12.2022 – A lazy holiday Shorts with 11 most read articles on For Better Science of 2022, plus some tweets, and musings on war and climate change. See you next year! Слава Україні! Героям слава!
Schneider Shorts 26.08.2022 – why an entire special issue got retracted, why Science editor won’t retract papers for fraud alone, with other amazing heroes of research integrity, a Swedish rector’s vanity, lab-grown meat and fish, Frontiers being silly again, and finally, a GoFundMe for a certain whiskey lover.
Schneider Shorts 22.07.2022 – Racist’s talk cancelled in Vienna, Polish plant scientist sees career cancelled, grand old cancer fraudster sacrifices two lambs, Spiderman to focus on fiction full-time, with aspiring Greek cheaters, sexy sockpuppets, Ayurveda for diabetes, proof that birds aren’t real and US Congress celebrating the real papermill heroes.
Schneider Shorts 6.05.2022 – how mTORman almost got a job at NYU, the 996 work morale, many great editorial decisions, rejuvenating stools, a minibrain curing autism, vitamin D against cancer, with an evil microscope maker, and a lewd Yale professor you probably don’t want to meet.
Schneider Shorts 29.042022 – a sexual harasser and his billionaire friends, criminal investigation in Marseille, fake quantum computing in The Netherlands, pandemic corruption in China, apples and bananas, corrections and retractions in need of corrections, and why we mustn’t ask about Global Virology Project.
Schneider Shorts of 8.04.2022 – antler baths and crazy inventions for diseased Führer Putin, Russia’s’ academic self-boycott, with a Fauci advisor on a race to the bottom, an ex-MIT sexual harasser, how Nature Comms helped a German cheater sue the DFG, and why toxoplasma infection is good for you.
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.
“The Plaintiff is Professor Sabatini […] the self-described powerful senior scientist, who had demanded sex of her when she was a graduate student ending her studies and about to start a fellowship at the Whitehead, in a program Sabatini would direct. […] And it is the man who had made it clear – throughout her training and employment with the Whitehead – that he would ruin anyone who dared to speak against him.”
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