The Rise of the Papermills
“Is it possible that through no fault of Zintzaras & Ioannidis, their work was incorporated into a papermill template, accruing hundreds of spurious citations?” – Smut Clyde
Tag: genetics
Schneider Shorts 3.06.2022 – Save German children from depravity!
Schneider Shorts 3.06.2022 – various peer-reviewed covidiocies, the real cause of depression and how to treat it, science proving that political views and psychopathy are eugenically encoded, with job openings at Weill Cornell, coffee and bananas, and the horrible danger German professors and doctors try to save the children from.
Schneider Shorts 24.12.2021 – Merry Christmas!
Schneider Shorts 24.12.2021 – Join our founder and CEO for a Yuletide party with chocolate, coffee, rotten cassava, autistic stools, schizophrenic minibrains, senolytics and antioxidants, and a scary RoboFish! Merry Winter Soltice!
Time to Meditate
Merry Christmas from PNAS
Viral by Alina Chan & Matt Ridley – Book review
Alina Chan’s book with Matt Ridley on the Origins of COVID-19 is finally out. It is a very informative read!
Moshe Szyf demands an apology
“We demand that you publicly apologize to our clients and retract all your statements within one week from today. Failure to do so will result in our taking an action in both public and private law, against you and McGill University.” – Moshe Szyf and Michael Meaney, via lawyer
Schneider Shorts 17.09.2021 – A Face to Punch
Schneider Shorts 17.09.2021: Claudio Hetz and Arati Ramesh without intent to commit fraud, a competition of stupidity – featuring Tel Aviv University, French Minister for Research, entire pharma giant Sanofi, and everyone following a certain Church, and finally: can one punch a bearded guy wearing glasses (asking for a friend)?
Chinese genetics of Uyghur face prediction
Who would have known that Uyghur DNA, used by Chinese state security for genetics research into racial profiling and face prediction, was obtained under coercion? Four papers by Caixia Li et al are now retracted.
Schneider Shorts 10.09.2021 – Greed is Good
Schneider Shorts 10.09.2021: featuring Progressive Eugenics, lactoferrin back as COVID-19 miracle cure, proxalutamide banned, with a secret game-changer from Texas and a not-so-secret-anymore drug from France, does one really need ethics approvals to torture small animals, and why stealthily taking industry bribes is not research misconduct.
Under a White Sky, by Elizabeth Kolbert: book review
My review of Elizabeth Kolbert’s new book about how scientists seek to save the planet from the damage humanity caused.
For Better Science 