By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts 22.03.2023 – honesty researcher faces the sack, misconduct charges lifted in Norway, misconduct charges in Sweden, with anti-canadian xenophobia, publishers showing understanding for all kinds of fraud, and finally, with anti-aging advice for dogs and men.
“Imagine what mistakes might be found in the raw data if anyone was allowed to look!” – Sholto David
Schneider Shorts 22.08.2023 – Italian health minister not worried, Argentinian researchers going silent, Elsevier issuing amazing corrections, EMBO Press issuing inaction, and an MDPI Jesus declaring corrections a sin.
Schneider Shorts 21.07.2023 – Stanford President resigns in whitewashed innocence, Smut in Le Monde, Harvard’s monumental study pooh-poohed, with a German botanist’s success story, Proofig at work, crooks stealing from crooks, an extortionist reviewer, and finally, Spain’s dental prodigy and his parents.
From mammoths to eugenics to anti-aging scams: god-impersonator George Church knows how to make money with bullshit.
“Without specific and credible allegations of research misconduct, MIT is unable to take any action.”
Schneider Shorts 20.012023 – an Imperial retraction, investigators appointed in Stanford, a sexual harasser arrives in Harvard, greedy crook reverses aging, with another Cassava paper whitewashed, the secret of high impact factors, why some Italian fraudster’s papers are safe.
Schneider Shorts of 10.06.2022 – why eugenics science is innocent, with a job opening for a medical school dean, a Turkish biomedical con artist charged with murder, a Herbalife shill whitewashed, a supplement scammer celebrated by CNN, plus a proxalutamide retraction, German Alzheimer’s cure, and Peter Wilmshurst vs Big Pharma to reassure you that science is first and foremost a business.
Schneider Shorts 23.07.2021: Pentagon declares war on old age, Cell being sneaky, French authorities not sure how to deal with fraud, with a suicide gene, more coffee, Neanderthals being stupid again and another Austrian genius saving the world from COVID-19.
Scientists David Sinclair and Michael Lisanti have an ingenious solution to COVID-19: anti-aging drugs. If a disease kills old people, stop being old!
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