By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts 28.08.2026 – racism affair in Ghent explodes in all directions, a German university deals with a Nazi doctor, another German university has been rigging Wikipedia, retractions for scholars in Italy and USA, and finally, a new antibody kerfuffle uncovered.
Schneider Shorts 4.04.2025 – cancer center director in USA and university rector in Austria need to check their papers, Egyptian geniuses recycle a spectrum 12 times, with amazing corrections by ACS and Elsevier, Nazi paper retracted, and finally, a Dutch sexual predator sacked by court order.
Schneider Shorts 13.09.2024 – obituary for an editor, new Swiss rules for authorship, Top Italian Scientist illicitly loses her first paper, an innocent Spanish rector faces retractions, dishonest dishonesty researcher loses lawsuit, with a scandalized German papermiller, concerns and reservations, and finally, with Nazis welcomed by society journal.
In 2019, MDPI published a Special Issue “Beyond Thirty Years of Research on Race Differences in Cognitive Ability”, one year later its owner Shu-Kun Lin expressed admiration for Trump and said “Black Lives Matter. White Lives Matter. All Lives Matter.”
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