By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
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.
Schneider Shorts 22.11.2024 – a witch-hunter’s obituary, a Nobelist awarded and awarding, a dirty old man protected in Marseille, mTORman funded in Czechia, a Polish mayor arrested, a superconductor wunderkind sacked, with Austro-Romanian papermilling, and retractions for various important men.
Schneider Shorts 27.09.2024 – Greek professor sentenced to prison for extortion, superconductor discovery questioned, reproducibility breakthrough retracted, Spanish foundation chair appointed, MDPI editors exposed, all Elsevier authors replaced, with an innocent rector in Sweden, anti-aging solutions, monkeys predicting US elections, fighting mice, and lots of other nonsense.
Schneider Shorts 16.09.2024 – superconductor data released, old American alpha males in trouble, a theory why CureVac failed, a resigned Polish papermiller’s lament, with a remote-papermiller in London, France’s celebrity plagiarist, a society for fake neuroscience, MDPI in action, and finally a bad ecstasy trip in California.
“J. Hirsch. […] engaged in unscrupulous practices, including falsifying analyses and selectively presenting data to support unfounded claims. […] Hirsch’s tactics include manipulation of public opinion, personal attacks on our team members, and threats and complaints to our management and funding agencies.” – Mikhail Eremets, the single most highly regarded high pressure experimentalist today.
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