USERN-friendly Nobelists
Nobel Prize laureates and predatory conferences – why such mutual attraction?
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Nobel Prize laureates and predatory conferences – why such mutual attraction?
“While papermills certainly pollute the literature the most in terms of numbers, I believe the spotlight should equally be on questionable research groups at top institutions, whose articles might have an even larger negative impact on society” – Aneurus Incostans
Schneider Shorts 11.07.2025 – an insulted, slandered and harassed Italian man in Zurich, a Saudi-sponsored Belgian man in Lausanne, with more Swiss (and British) correctness, more Nobel retractions, and finally, with a moa and mammoth safari on Mars.
Schneider Shorts 22.11.2024 – a witch-hunter’s obituary, a Nobelist awarded and awarding, a dirty old man protected in Marseille, mTORman funded in Czechia, a Polish mayor arrested, a superconductor wunderkind sacked, with Austro-Romanian papermilling, and retractions for various important men.
Schneider Shorts 1.03.2024 – the 3 Rs of Roche’s CMO, Portuguese zombie cures cancer again, with another Italian alpha male of medicine, retractions for Dana Farbericators, a Californian poet, a Nobelist, a Roman papermiller, and an Indian academician, and finally, with Radio Yerevan jokes in Elsevier!
Schneider Shorts 6.10.2023 – what really happened to deleted US professor, a scientist in France needs IT assistance, rigorous peer review at work, with hand-made spectra, sneaked references and many retractions, for Nobelists, papermills and other cheaters, big and small.
Schneider Shorts 1.09.2023 – how not to deal with rogue student, fraudster sanctioned despite unaffected conclusions, Nobelist gets two more retractions, with a wandering XRD spectrum, Swedish rector under investigation, British medical elites and their businesses, Japanese comedy neuroscience, and finally, the certain direction russian science must be sent to.
Schneider Shorts 30.06.2023 – Nobelists in need of defence, superconductive fraud vidicated, new fraudsters at MD Anderson in Texas discovered, Alzheimer fraudster gets his own center, an American in Italian fraud gang, with other fraudsters in Italy and their retractions, an MDPI’s expert, and finally, with India’s greatest scholar and his manpower.
Schneider Shorts 26.05.2023 – a dyslexic graphing software in Israel, a Marseille court decides wisely, ingenious cures for autism and Parkinson’s, with Nobelist’s new retraction, stem cell fraudsters’ retraction, botched-up retraction notice, more retractions, and finally, how a German professor-maker investigated his papers.
Schneider Shorts 28.04.2023 – old American papers in need of fixing, young russian and Iranian researchers in need of helping, French whistleblowers in need of punishing, Austrian anti-aging supplements in need of advertising, with an anti-aging pimp on cocaine, depressive fish in China, cured Israeli soldiers, and finally, retractions in full, in part and not at all.


