Colossal Liar Wolves
“What is most concerning is that Colossal’s ‘dire wolves’ have now attracted the attention of the Trump administration.” – Ronan Taylor
Tag: ecology
Schneider Shorts 5.05.2023 – Freedom and responsibility of the scientists
Schneider Shorts 5.05.2023 – Spanish Saudi Shills: a trilogy, state-of-the-art tools to cure diabetes, papermilling gang moves to new Elsevier journal, congrats on 1000 citations, with legitimate images, imaginary American co-authors, rapamycin longevity advice, catfish as COVID-19 origin, and finally, why German universities sponsor Hindawi.
Schneider Shorts 12.08.2022 – Little sausages
Schneider Shorts 12.08.2022 – marine ecology whistleblowers topple another cheater, a French plagiarist’s newest prank, with greedy gits of UCL lying and taunting, a doctor in California selling long covid cure, a doctor in Spain selling ozone quackery for everything, Israeli Scientists selling anti-Alzheimer’s supplement, Ukrainians debunk American young blood pseudoscience, and Smut Clyde officially out of the closet.
Schneider Shorts 8.10.2021 – The Wrath of God
Schneider Shorts of 8 October 2021: greedy Big Pharma, killer kitties, fake Viking maps, fake clinical trials, fake CVs and fake grades, other tortured phrases, academic eugenics, updates on lab leak theory, and the scientific lessons for Christianity from Sodom and Gomorrah.
Schneider Shorts 10.09.2021 – Greed is Good
Schneider Shorts 10.09.2021: featuring Progressive Eugenics, lactoferrin back as COVID-19 miracle cure, proxalutamide banned, with a secret game-changer from Texas and a not-so-secret-anymore drug from France, does one really need ethics approvals to torture small animals, and why stealthily taking industry bribes is not research misconduct.
Under a White Sky, by Elizabeth Kolbert: book review
My review of Elizabeth Kolbert’s new book about how scientists seek to save the planet from the damage humanity caused.
Finding the Mother Tree, by Suzanne Simard: book review
“But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself” – Quote by Rachel Carson, used as opening of Simard’s book.
Female Choice by Meike Stoverock: book review
I review here a new German book about “The Beginning and the the End of the Male Civilization”. And then I discuss a related research paper.
Spiderman’s lawyer is having you for dinner tonight
Spider researcher Jonathan Pruitt is accused by his coauthors of data manipulations, after 3 retractions they demand more. A lawyer’s letter was supposed to stop that, but Pruitt tells me: “I’m happy for folks to engage in public discourse about my data integrity””
Fishy peer review at Science, by citizen scientist Ted Held
Sweden and the international research community recently faced yet another research misconduct scandal. It was about a Science paper byContinue Reading
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