By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts 20.06.2025 – Greatest Italian of All Times honoured in Rome, a Turkish kleptomaniac busted, Nobel scammer and his Ajan get Emirates money, Elsevier corrects some past mistakes, and other limits to publication ethics.
The papers are old, raw data unavailable, one can see small differences, some students probably did it, and anyway, conclusions are unaffected.
Schneider Shorts 7.02.2025 – two material science fabricators in Sweden, one established, one just recruited, two innocent white men who fell prey to naughty Pakistani, with a retraction for a Scottish legend, publishers cleaning up, plagiarism from the best, some corrections, and a Springer contractor gaslighting a sleuth.
“PCR reactions run on agarose gels commonly look similar due to artifacts introduced by the agarose gel and comb.” Dr Elsa R Flores, Associate Director, Moffitt Cancer Center
Is the journal Cell Death and Disease a disease itself, parasitised by Chinese paper mills? Can it be cured? Not with this team of doctors on editorial board.
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