The Biggest Fraudster of All
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By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
“Leonid Schneider’s replies will appear in full at the following link: https://forbetterscience.com/” – PubPeer moderator
Schneider Shorts 7.11.2025 – an obituary for a rector who published too much, another German professor pestered by sleuths, Canada’s superstar and his mentees, Wiley’s haphazard approach to papermills, and finally, when corner clones are not OK.
“Imagine what mistakes might be found in the raw data if anyone was allowed to look!” – Sholto David
Suppose they gave a talk and no one came. It’s easy if you try.
Professor Ruben Plentz chose to focus his career on clinical medicine in Bremen, despite his tremendous academic achievements in cancer research. Was it because malicious critics harassed him with frivolous investigations and corrections, envious at all those peer-reviewed cancer cures the great doctor invented?
More bad news for Karl Lenhard Rudolph: misconduct findings and 2 year funding ban from DFG. Good news: the international scientific community stands to him in solidarity, no retractions, even some corrections won’t be implemented.
A major misconduct finding hits German life sciences. Karl Lenhard Rudolph, stem cell and ageing researcher, director of the Fritz-Lippmann-Institute (FLI)Continue Reading






