By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts 8.03.2024 – Parkinson’s cured with Photoshop, Wiley abolishes COI policy, clean-up after sacked fraudsters, Bostonian reputations defended, retractions for Macchiarini and other science elites at QMUL, Stanford, Columbia and even for MDPI Jesus, and finally, PNAS special for Women’s Day!
Welcome to the the William Harvey Research Institute in London. Meet two proteges of its founder, the late Nobelist Sir John Vane: Chris Thiemermann and Mauro Perretti. Then meet their own rotten mentees, especially Salvatore Cuzzocrea and Jesmond Dalli.
Schneider Shorts 14.07.2023 – a Nobel-groomed German phoney in London, a Romanian papermilling thief, and a Spanish psychopath all protected by their universities, Harvard’s looney in news again, with Unesco’s blunder, insights into Elsevier’s sausage factory, some retractions, and finally, how to communicate with PubPeer critics in academic manner.
Schneider Shorts 13.05.2022 – three long shorts about various biomedical professors with very little ethics but with a lot of love for money, one long short about russia’s “bioweapon” Big Lie now including antivaxxery and antisemitism, and finally, some music!
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