By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts 2.06.2023 – how cancer is cured at Stanford and Harvard, mass retractions at Hindawi journal, tricks for life extention, chocolate for Alzheimer’s, with a polluted conference, a papermilling Belgian, failed and successful corrections, and a dirty old man’s wild trial.
“I reviewed papers published in special issues of Hindawi journals that had corresponding authors from low- and middle-income countries. It seems, the APC waiver policy may be being abused by papermills” – Parashorea tomentella
Schneider Shorts 5.05.2023 – Spanish Saudi Shills: a trilogy, state-of-the-art tools to cure diabetes, papermilling gang moves to new Elsevier journal, congrats on 1000 citations, with legitimate images, imaginary American co-authors, rapamycin longevity advice, catfish as COVID-19 origin, and finally, why German universities sponsor Hindawi.
Schneider Shorts of 31.03.2023 – Unexpected retraction for Italian trachea transplant surgeon, first retraction to US cancer bigwig and lady friend, retraction of retraction for Georgia State papermiller, helping Iranian peers from Germany, a Canadian whistleblower’s relentless fight, with rascist academic elites, Germany’s Nazi expert, and finally, advice from a child prodigy on how to work hard and learn a lot!
Schneider Shorts 17.03.2023 – St Carlos of Cnidaria in PNAS, appropriate action on fraud in Grenoble, protests in Groningen, how Alzheimer’s, old age, obesity, COVID-19 and depression got solved, with Taras the Papermiller, publishing business setbacks, and finally, retractions galore!
Parashorea tomentella continues their investigation of Hindawi’s uneasy collaboration with Chinese papermills. Can it be solved with the promised 511 retractions?
Schneider Shorts 2.12.2022 – Stanford president’s fake science suddenly in the news, curcumin cheater in Michigan makes lab members apologise, Indian lab’s science proven reliable despite fake data, with lazy russian papermillers, a Japanese astronaut caught on research fraud, musical genes discovered, and the real papermill heroes established by The BMJ.
Did you know that special issues are better than regular issues and better than special issues?
Schneider Shorts 14.10.2022 – the mystery past of Dresden rector, a sacked dean in Czechia, a Don’t mess with Texas mega-correction in Nature, concerns expressed for Sicilian nepotist fraudsters, an indignant Weizmann scientist, scamferences legalised in Würzburg, and new fun stories of the Hindawi papermill!
Schneider Shorts 30.09.2022 – with an undesired fourth patient in NEJM, superconductive fraud in Nature, killer Lancet, heroic Wiley, dead rabbits of London, Aduhelm 2.0, micronanorobots, coffee vs death, and a toxic antivaxxer awarded by toxic elites.
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