By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts 12.11.2021: a retraction for Pierre Kory, avoided retractions for various fraudsters, Vojtech Adam negotiating with success, Cassava forges partnership with learned society against Bik, Raoult vs Bill Gates, why asphyxiation is good for you, TCM recipes, Pandora Papers and chemical pollution, and how to save the planet with synthetic nature.
Disappointed of Carey Gillam’s book about Lawyers’ Adventures, I blog about the Monsanto and glyphosate affair.
“A consumable component, magnetic beads, used by the laboratory was supplied by Magnacell Ltd, a company that has Dr T Jurkowski as a director. Cardiff University did not tender for these consumables at the time”.
A book review about the history of two nuclear communities, one capitalist, one socialist, and their toxic legacies.
Exceptional times call for exceptional men. In Israel, men of science boldly step forward to face the coronavirus, armed with miracle cures. Pandemic, like a good war, is always good for business.
EU Commission gives €6 million to an obscure German start-up, promising to convert sewage to synthetic fuels. Internet sources suggest behind all this is “Professor” Ruggiero Santilli, the litigious “Florida Genius”, eternally self-appointed Nobel Prize candidate and sock-
puppeteering businessman. Exactly the kind of “fringe scientist” Smut Clyde likes to write about!
Telomere dysfunction is a common problem in older men. Dr Shai Efrati can help: Book your appointment for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy now!
There is a miracle drug for COVID-19, but it is secret. Enterprising researchers at Institute Pasteur in Lille ask for €5 million.
Augustine Choi is Dean of Weill Cornell and a misunderstood genius. He discovered that carbon monoxide is a cure for all possible diseases, just add a bit of Photoshop.
The new book Adverse Events by Jill Fisher shows the reality behind phase 1 clinical trials in USA and the “healthy volunteers” who participate in those. Clue: they are not White middle-class university students with a penchant for altruism.
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