Trials and Errors of Martin Gleave
“The magnitude was much greater than we had expected or hoped for,” – Martin Gleave
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
“The magnitude was much greater than we had expected or hoped for,” – Martin Gleave
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.
Celebrating the German cancer research maverick Margot Zöller of Heidelberg.
Schneider Shorts 27.12.2024 – Most-read articles of 2024, on dangers of social media, universities in Ireland and Czechia educating sleuths about fraud, naughty editors at Elsevier, a russian ork in USA disposes partner and two papers, more retractions for YouTube couple, and finally, Germany’s New Year resolutions which involve MDPI!
“The Investigative Committee notes that the infractions to normal scientific conduct surveyed in this report were blatant and repeated. Dr. [XY] should be dealt with in a manner consistent to the flagrant nature of the misconduct and data manipulation.” 2004 Berkeley report, illegal in Germany
“the professor insults her doctoral students, calling them “stupid”, “useless” or “retarded”, for example. She is said to sometimes require her employees to work more than 80 hours a week. The report speaks of a “quasi-feudal relationship of dependence” and a “climate of fear” at the institute in question.”
“J. Hirsch. […] engaged in unscrupulous practices, including falsifying analyses and selectively presenting data to support unfounded claims. […] Hirsch’s tactics include manipulation of public opinion, personal attacks on our team members, and threats and complaints to our management and funding agencies.” – Mikhail Eremets, the single most highly regarded high pressure experimentalist today.
One shooting and one falling star of University Clinic Tübingen. Meet the research ethics champion Julia Skokowa and the eternally affiliated Renaissance Man Reza Akhavan-Sigari,
“[Timon Rabczuk] is happily accepting 2 million euro of European money, whilst at the same time optimizing his return-on-investment on Vietnamese affiliation scam and cashing in on his ‘highly cited researcher’ accolades by also posing as King Saud researcher.” – Maarten van Kampen
Schneider Shorts 5.04.2024 – angry old Nobelist hounded again, one German professor whitewashed, another told to find new friends, Iranian student in Finland admits buying authorships, Polish vice-rector brings papermilling home, more retractions for Italian ex-rector, and finally, with an obituary to anti-aging researcher.







