My Big Fat Greek Ophthalmology
From fake cancer research to fake ophthalmology – just follow Mitsi and Vassiliki and you’ll meet Dementios and other bad eye doctors, including a horrible German we hoped to never see again.
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
From fake cancer research to fake ophthalmology – just follow Mitsi and Vassiliki and you’ll meet Dementios and other bad eye doctors, including a horrible German we hoped to never see again.
“The mice probably wouldn’t care whether the experiment they suffered and died for was meaningful or not, but it does seem to matter to me. “- Sholto David
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 2.02.2024 – Three stories about Dana Farber (including a Nobelist!), two stories about the Lille papermille (including a game!), with an “honest” plant scientist, doctors being rewarded, amazing corrections and informative retractions, and how another Nobelist’s cell therapy business ended up unsold.
Schneider Shorts 26.01.2024 – Harvard story explodes in US media, a cheater sues former student, with rat torturers in Italy, publishers being naughty, a special editorial achievement, Nigerian scams, an elusive Greek behind retractions, and why all Germans must publish in Frontiers now.
“Imagine what mistakes might be found in the raw data if anyone was allowed to look!” – Sholto David
Schneider Shorts 8.12.2023 – St Carlos flees to Paris again, eye-opening ophthalmology in London, with naughty editors, retractions for papermillers and for German medical elites, some brain food, and finally, a toast to science!