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“There is so much money flowing through this system that I don’t see what will stop the network of papermills and corrupt editors.” – Nick Wise
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
“There is so much money flowing through this system that I don’t see what will stop the network of papermills and corrupt editors.” – Nick Wise
Schneider Shorts 26.01.2024 – Harvard story explodes in US media, a cheater sues former student, with rat torturers in Italy, publishers being naughty, a special editorial achievement, Nigerian scams, an elusive Greek behind retractions, and why all Germans must publish in Frontiers now.
Schneider Shorts 19.01.2024 – a guest Short by Robert Cockburn, Belgian research ethics, Joe gives Joe a million, a million and a quarter to find the leak, papermillers big and small, and finally, with COPE retractions guidelines biting back.
Schneider Shorts 12.01.2024 – a white victim of Indian fraud, whom Royal Society of Chemistry really trusts, with image analysis software expertly applied, a cold fusion breakthrough, retractions for killer doctors, and where US universities went wrong.
Schneider Shorts 22.12.2023 – trachea transplanters in London wish to continue, retractions happening when hope was lost, Welsh approach to papermilling, with an Italian researcher harassed, a role model debunked, and finally, with Sholto’s Science Police Christmas special!
Schneider Shorts 8.12.2023 – St Carlos flees to Paris again, eye-opening ophthalmology in London, with naughty editors, retractions for papermillers and for German medical elites, some brain food, and finally, a toast to science!
Schneider Shorts 24.11.2023 – science advances one funeral at a time, journal editors vs Trieste fraud, qualifications you need in Texas, half-hearted retractions and non-retractions, a Bielefeld Conspiracy, and finally, with cures for autism and all brain disorders.
“Among these candidates that you “vetted” were people with no expertise in the field (either 0 or 1 publication), people with longer PubPeer profiles and more retractions than most people have articles on their CVs, and people whose names appear as authors on sold paper sites. ” – Jillian Goldfarb
Schneider Shorts 20.10.2023 – Alzheimer’s researcher slapped with fraud findings, a book-filling papermill couple in Sweden, with retractions and editorial ethics fails, and finally, a London university approves of Ayurvedic ethics dumping but disapproves of PubPeer.
Schneider Shorts 6.10.2023 – what really happened to deleted US professor, a scientist in France needs IT assistance, rigorous peer review at work, with hand-made spectra, sneaked references and many retractions, for Nobelists, papermills and other cheaters, big and small.


