By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
“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
“BatDolphin-based sparse fuzzy algorithm, cat swarm optimization, honey bees optimization, moth amalgamated elephant herding optimization, fitness sorted moth search algorithm, improved tunicate swarm optimization, lion algorithm, deer hunting optimization, various rider optimization schemes, grey wolf optimization, cuckoo search, and finally a bat algorithm. Such a zoo of names immediately raises suspicion, and for a good reason.” – Maarten van Kampen
“I could not comprehend the situation where a university picks up on individuals with an extraordinary and sterling performance and basically destroy one of the top European institutions. ” – Raj Varma
Four years after Ashutosh Tiwari’s scamferences and research fraud were exposed, his impressive-sounding yet fictional “International Association of Advanced Materials”, or IAAM, still opens doors, hearts and wallets.
“These papers breached the Australian Code and RMIT Research Policy by not ensuring that conclusions are justified by the results and not responsibly
disseminating research findings.” RMIT investigative report
Meet Danish Ahmed and other members of the Sam Higginbottom gang. I am not making those names up.
Schneider Shorts 19.11.2021 – Alina Chan’s book is out, Irish Moss as COVID-19 crusher, long covid all in your head, Cassava affair exposes idiocy of stock market capitalism, featuring a short-fused bully editor and his antivax successor, Wiley defending upmarket research fraud, Cheshire taking on the Indian Ministry of Defence, with Frontiers in insectofascism, mental deficiencies of vegans, radioactive showers, and my best wishes to Spiderman in his alternative career as fantasy writer.
“you can make a mistake once, but twice hmmmm I’d like to have my name removed from the potential revised version of this manuscript”, – Prof Guillemin.
Schneider Shorts 5.08.2021: ivermectin-flavoured cigarettes, homeopathy, Ayurveda, and the scientists I have harassed in the past, the present and plan to harass in the future.
An exclusive interview with Siladitya Bandyopadhyay, about bullying and research fraud in the Arati Ramesh lab at NCBS Bangalore.
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