By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts 20.06.2025 – Greatest Italian of All Times honoured in Rome, a Turkish kleptomaniac busted, Nobel scammer and his Ajan get Emirates money, Elsevier corrects some past mistakes, and other limits to publication ethics.
Schneider Shorts 17.01.2025 – Ex-rector acquitted in Germany, YouTube couple guilty of fraud in Sweden, papermiller kicked out in Poland, with a whodunit retraction, retractions for papermillers and russian scamferencers, and finally, testing the limits of permissible in scholarly publishing.
Several years ago, UCL investigated the Macchiarini affair and found their surgeon Martin Birchall was not only innocent, but also entitled to more money and more patients to experiment upon.
Now, Patricia Murray was awarded for exposing this UCL malfeasance, and Sholto David scrutinised UCL papers for data manipulation.
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