Perfect Blots
“A coordinated review of the cited publications and underlying data is currently underway” – Hiroki Kuniyasu
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
“A coordinated review of the cited publications and underlying data is currently underway” – Hiroki Kuniyasu
Schneider Shorts 28.11.2025 – a Good Russian in eastern Germany, a pensioner victimised in New York, with several MDPI retractions for papermillers and Italian bigwigs, interesting corrections, failed proper channels, and finally, even more cancers ended with nanoparticles.
“Trapped inside every autist, a normal child with normal cognition is struggling to get out – only needing the right drug or therapy to be released”, – Smut Clyde
Schneider Shorts 13.06.2025 – a buddy network in Manitoba, a young ethics hero in Uppsala, a typical German investigation, retractions for an undead man, two confused open access publishers, and finally, Peven Stinker’s new Nazi adventures.
“I know you cannot understand such matters, since you appear to have strong mother-related problems that most likely have denied you of a satisfactory sexual life”, _ Enrico Sciubba, Editor-in-Chief
“The preference of Thippa Reddy Gadekallu et al. (Abdul Rehman Javed, Celestine O. Iwendi, Sharnil Nitin Pandya and Gaurav Jay Dhiman) for coercive citation and copy-pasting their review comments” – Maria de los Ángeles Oviedo García
Schneider Shorts 24.01.2025 – a retirement party in Bristol, a Canadian without worries, papermilling across the Irish sea and other things MDPI lets through, with a pile of retractions, a corrected cure for Parkinson’s, and finally, coffee, milk and strawberries to avoid death.
Schneider Shorts 27.12.2024 – Most-read articles of 2024, on dangers of social media, universities in Ireland and Czechia educating sleuths about fraud, naughty editors at Elsevier, a russian ork in USA disposes partner and two papers, more retractions for YouTube couple, and finally, Germany’s New Year resolutions which involve MDPI!
Schneider Shorts 1.11.2024 – more fictions from an old crook, society journals teach sleuth good science, Scottish investigation causes retraction, Scottish papermiller goes to China, hazardous waste in Italy, amazing achievements of transplant surgeons, and finally, editorial dedicated to those murdered by retractions.
Schneider Shorts 18.10.2024 – obituary for one of the few upright academics, horrid abuse by Dutch archaeologist revealed in lawsuit, MDPI causes death of Romanian employee, a society publisher has enough of pesky sleuths, big alpha males retract papers, and finally, with hyperbaric oxygen scam in UK.




