The papermills of my mind
“For as I have often bemoaned in the past, not even the paper-forging industry is free from scruple- and principle-deficient players.” – Smut Clyde
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
“For as I have often bemoaned in the past, not even the paper-forging industry is free from scruple- and principle-deficient players.” – Smut Clyde
Schneider Shorts 4.11.2022 – with a russian spy in Norway, an antisemite in Marseille, an antivax editor retired, various grumpy, disappointed and contrarian scientists, conflicts of interests which count and which don’t, a collection of whole, partial and withdrawn retractions, and a papermill sleuth celebrating himself.
Schneider Shorts 21.10.2022 – a German stealth professor of psychology at Columbia, a visiting fraudster at Imperial College, a scamference amateur at Nuttingham Trash University, retractions in UK, US and elsewhere, a racist hiding in plain sight, a far-right conspiracist conference at Stanford, and finally, an OA Gospel of Frontiers.
Schneider Shorts 16.09.2022 – Israelis solve COVID-19 and lab-grown meat, Danes solve obesity and autism, a Californian Persian solves diabetes, with a harassed editor, an unretractable Schrödinger’s paper, Temple fraud on national news, how much Dr Oz loves puppies, more eugenics endorsement from EMBL, and a persecuted dirty old man in Marseille with a sperm bank.
Schneider Shorts 26.08.2022 – why an entire special issue got retracted, why Science editor won’t retract papers for fraud alone, with other amazing heroes of research integrity, a Swedish rector’s vanity, lab-grown meat and fish, Frontiers being silly again, and finally, a GoFundMe for a certain whiskey lover.
Schneider Shorts of 10.06.2022 – why eugenics science is innocent, with a job opening for a medical school dean, a Turkish biomedical con artist charged with murder, a Herbalife shill whitewashed, a supplement scammer celebrated by CNN, plus a proxalutamide retraction, German Alzheimer’s cure, and Peter Wilmshurst vs Big Pharma to reassure you that science is first and foremost a business.
Schneider Shorts 29.042022 – a sexual harasser and his billionaire friends, criminal investigation in Marseille, fake quantum computing in The Netherlands, pandemic corruption in China, apples and bananas, corrections and retractions in need of corrections, and why we mustn’t ask about Global Virology Project.
Schneider Shorts 11.03.2022 – Fascist Russia commits genocide in Ukraine, with possible nuclear plans as the world watches helplessly, American Heart Association advises to drink wine, Frontiers warns of COVID vaccines, Motherisk crook gets another retraction, and Bob Gallo tells you what to think of COVID origins.
Schneider Shorts 7.01.2022 – The real lesson from Theranos affair, various psychiatric disorders cured with cannabis, resveratrol and mushrooms, a huge Russian papermill exposed, Raoult finds a new coronavirus variant, and learning research integrity with Dr Eckert (ex-Curno) of Frontiers.
Schneider Shorts 10 December 2021 – the incredible clinical partners of Cassava Sciences, Duke University expands quack operations, bullies bulling bullies at Max Planck Society, French COVID-19 suppository cancelled but we can target telomeres instead, plus there’s always oleandrin, Nature has a new joke journal, Norilsk, the most polluted place on Earth, and finally: why you must never refuse sex to mTOR man.