The Miracle-Polymer-Dumbsterfire
“Read the damn paper and look at the figures before publishing it; it’s not that hard” – Archasia belfragei
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
“Read the damn paper and look at the figures before publishing it; it’s not that hard” – Archasia belfragei
Schneider Shorts 28.02.2025 – what Scottish professor and Italian MP have in common, a Croatian genius and his friends, a US inventor with sponge and teabag, with Elsevier afraid of a stalker, a premature correction, sexy retractions, and finally, what to consume against obesity and diabetes.
Schneider Shorts 21.02.2025 – Germany special with my plea to German voters, a russia-lover in Hamburg, an animal friend in Magdeburg, a decisive art historian in Cottbus, and an Iran-loving German in Poland, plus other stories of a Californian urologist, a papermill gang, and mass retractions in Elsevier to save one greedy Spanish man.
“Since Journal of Ethnopharmacology sees no reason to reject bear bile powder research like other scientific journals, that means you can expect to see anything there” – Parashorea tomentella
Mu Yang and other sleuths celebrate the scholarly publishing business of the late T Nejat Veziroglu, laureate of Santilli-Galilei Gold Medal for Lifetime Commitment to True Scientific Democracy
Schneider Shorts 10.01.2024 – the most influential person in Polish medicine, breaking bad news to Germany’s star oncologist, with Egyptian cheaters, artistic achievements, a COPE investigation, coffee and mayonnaise, and finally, The Guardian view on dog anti-aging.
“I like ImageTwin, but seeing things with just eyes is like hand-to-hand combat….” – Mu Yang
Schneider Shorts 29.11.2024 – an Alzheimer’s biotech in free fall, an Israeli Scientist explains the unexplainable, a German fraudster indicted, with a butterfly bully, good fellows and bad fellows, inconsistencies in PLOS One, and finally, with some hot chocolate to clean your brain.
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!
“I woke up seeing Elsevier’s giant middle finger in front of my face.” – Mu Yang
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