“Doctored” by Charles Piller – book review
“If this book accomplishes anything, it should be to shatter the illusion that Alzheimer’s research is on solid footing and to prompt a long-overdue reckoning in the field. ” – Csaba Szabo
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
“If this book accomplishes anything, it should be to shatter the illusion that Alzheimer’s research is on solid footing and to prompt a long-overdue reckoning in the field. ” – Csaba Szabo
Schneider Shorts 14.02.2025 – the Matthew Effect in Nobel retractions, Cambridge approves of papermilling, France rewards cheatery, with Karen and her mice, fake miRNA research in Canada, and finally, qualifications you need to get a top job in Switzerland.
Thomas Südhof, victim of racist and sexist persecution, announced to retract a second paper, “even though the quantitative analyses and conclusions are correct”.
Schneider Shorts 9.08.2024 – Polish rector extorts journalists for money as yet another papermiller is installed, how to look like an Israeli Scientist, sleuth’s boss accused of fraud, retractions for innocent Italians, Sicilian man gets a new job, and finally, an obituary on another master from Messina.
Schneider Shorts 17.11.2023 – a sexual harasser comes to Prague, cover-ups in London and Florence, with a Dutch scam, many retractions, Alzheimer’s infectively uncorked, and finally, another Alzheimer’s superstar exposed as a fraud.
Schneider Shorts 10.03.2023 – two science bigwigs caught with unaffected conclusions, return of superconductive fraud in Nature, other examples of who’s trustworthy and who isn’t, what Stanford president knew, some retractions, MDPI fighting papermills, a German journal can’t stop papermilling, and finally, who blew up Nord Stream pipelines?
Schneider Shorts 11.11.2022 – cheater’s husband spams fellow cheaters, a German university gets whistleblower protection wrong, cold fusion returns to USA, papermill retractions, a meat shill in LA, cord blood quacks in UK, Elsevier’s time warp, plus silly Alzheimer’s science and an Alzheimer’s fraud sleuth asking to retract his own papers.
From Lesné’s public shame to successful role models of neuroscience like Aguzzi and Tessier-Lavigne.



