By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts 29.09.2023 – an Egyptian cheater wiped out, superconductive fraud to be retracted again, editors finding nothing out of order, with a Mexican Photoshop artist, another dodgy correction, and finally, with eugenic, pardon, genetic evidence for segregated schools.
Schneider Shorts 22.08.2023 – Italian health minister not worried, Argentinian researchers going silent, Elsevier issuing amazing corrections, EMBO Press issuing inaction, and an MDPI Jesus declaring corrections a sin.
“What exactly will Lash and Elsevier do with these 115 problematic papers? I can only expect a painfully inadequate response.” – Sholto David
Schneider Shorts 15.09.2023 – officially innocent scientists in Germany, USA and Sweden, Italian etnobotanist befriends Indian papermill, Harvard to sack first professor, with a successful and a failed biotech, a computer conspiring against editors, and finally, how Nature invented the climate change.
Schneider Shorts 18.08.2023 – Australian university outsources faculty affairs to Elsevier, Elsevier editor reports sleuth for misconduct, Mexican fraudster’s post-mortem retractions, more retractions in Dresden, with lying russians, Vicker’s Curse striking twice, and finally, Nobelist and struck-off dentist sell business for many millions.
How did an editorial about insect pheromone communication get to receive 1200 irrelevant citations, almost all from papermills? Alexander Magazinov reveals The Secret of The Vickers Curse!
Schneider Shorts 14.07.2023 – a Nobel-groomed German phoney in London, a Romanian papermilling thief, and a Spanish psychopath all protected by their universities, Harvard’s looney in news again, with Unesco’s blunder, insights into Elsevier’s sausage factory, some retractions, and finally, how to communicate with PubPeer critics in academic manner.
“There is another possibility, though… that C.-C. Sun is the papermill, supplying colleagues around Wuhan with variants of the same paper, with the condition that those donated manuscripts carry self-citation payloads.” – Smut Clyde
Schneider Shorts 19.05.2023 – Bad Optiks for an Elsevier journal, a rectification of bad journalism, a retraction achieved, with Taiwanese politics, young blood, menthol cures, and finally, an Israeli scientist’s supplement-induced paranoia.
Schneider Shorts 21.04.2023 – due diligence in Germany, cancer biotech bonanza in USA, python expert in Iran, highly cited researchers in Spain, English professor in russia, Italian fraudster in an unexpected company, with eugenics, racism and war-mongering, and finally, why a papermill fabrication can’t be retracted.
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