By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
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!
French nanotechnologists Sabine Szunerits and Rabah Boukherroub put EU Commission’s money to good use. The EU cannot afford a papermill gap to Iran and China!
“Let me assure you that I totally condemn the war in Ukraine, and at the very least because my old mother is in Kharkiv and she suffers a lot… I am trying to help my colleagues and friends from Ukraine whichever way I can…” – Professor Kostya “Ken” Ostrikov
“Don’t let online controversies and aggressive blogs easily ruin
everything you’ve worked for to build your reputation […] Whether the image issue is innocent or intentional, the outcome is still the same. Bloggers will attack that publication with image issues, which will damage your reputation and may even lead to a costly investigation.
We are here to help you prevent this. I am Dr. Dror Kolodkin Gal, […] the founder of Proofig.”
Schneider Shorts 27.01.2023 – Michigan professor out after fraud findings, Elsevier’s recruits Vietnam’s most-cited scholar as EiC, much-retracted gynecologist from Egypt loses PhD in Netherlands, anti-aging goes to the dogs, how to get fit, and finally, how an intrepid journal hunts the biggest research fraudster in science’s history.
“here is my advice to Clarivate: better get lost. ” – Alexander Magazinov
Schneider Shorts 19.08.2022 – a Colossal wanker goes Oz, a whistleblower sues MIT over agro-fraud, another sacked whistleblower to be deported, a grape industry shill with nutrition advice, an editor guides Aneurus through proper channels, papermills invade even preprints, with camel dung, a PhD in masturbation, and secret self-assembling graphene nano-antennas in mRNA vaccines!
Schneider Shorts 3.06.2022 – various peer-reviewed covidiocies, the real cause of depression and how to treat it, science proving that political views and psychopathy are eugenically encoded, with job openings at Weill Cornell, coffee and bananas, and the horrible danger German professors and doctors try to save the children from.
Alina Chan’s book with Matt Ridley on the Origins of COVID-19 is finally out. It is a very informative read!
“Please, can you tell me more about the web page and mechanism behind? Is there any “scheme” of scanning published papers?” asks Professor Vojtech Adam. Yes, it’s Elisabeth Bik.
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