By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts 5.12.2025 – a young genius in Oxford, a Greek tobacco shill, a Spanish papermiller, retractions for important men and women, including a retracted retraction, glyphosate paper finally gone, and why papermills invent fake Ukrainians
“A concerning trend is the rise of “hyper-skepticism”” – ChatGPT
Schneider Shorts 12.09.2025 – obituary for the great protector of women in science, concerns for another woman in science (also at MIT), first retraction to break the ice in Germany, with a Swedish papermiller, some cancer researchers in the UK, and finally, with a brainlessly shameful correction.
Schneider Shorts 11.07.2025 – an insulted, slandered and harassed Italian man in Zurich, a Saudi-sponsored Belgian man in Lausanne, with more Swiss (and British) correctness, more Nobel retractions, and finally, with a moa and mammoth safari on Mars.
Schneider Shorts 21.03.2025 – Brazilian Academician who may have second thoughts about awarding PubPeer, what to eat to avoid breast cancer, with Armenian Alzheimer’s vaccines, a litigious fraudster, elusive Belgians, and finally, what German government knew about pandemic origins.
Schneider Shorts 7.03.2025 – Royal Society salutes Nazi oligarch, Belgian university uses poverty excuse, Chinese surgeons cure Alzheimer’s, with an untrustworthy Italian biotech, a revised correction, circular plagiarism, even more retractions, an erased paper, and finally, with mice turned into mammoths!
Schneider Shorts 14.02.2025 – the Matthew Effect in Nobel retractions, Cambridge approves of papermilling, France rewards cheatery, with Karen and her mice, fake miRNA research in Canada, and finally, qualifications you need to get a top job in Switzerland.
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.
Schneider Shorts 15.11.2024 – trouble in elite Canadian lab, leadership chaos at IEEE, cancer charity money put to good use in Italy, one Elsevier journal untouchable, another cleaned from papermillers, with a Polish professor betrayed, NIH fraudster’s first retractions, and finally, Patricia Murray vs stem cell clinics!
“Poking around PubMed (Dysdera the spider is always on the hunt for new hornet’s nests) [..], I came across one image in two papers by Eliezer Masliah. […] By a conservative count, I contributed to about 160 out of 300 slides in the final dossier” – Mu Yang
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