Sweet Sixteen Retractions
“Oh no, not me!”
Rinklebe never lost control
You’re face to face
With the man who soiled the world
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
“Oh no, not me!”
Rinklebe never lost control
You’re face to face
With the man who soiled the world
Schneider Shorts 24.07.2026 – proper channels at work in Austria, Science self-correcting, tobacco shills and papermillers in charge of food security, with husband and wife torturing mice, important men losing papers, many other papermill retractions, and tips on how to deal with PubPeer moderation!
“In Portugal more than 95% of all research activities are carried out under precarious labour conditions, by undergraduate and PhD researchers employed under a variety of temporary contracts, often with limited or no benefits, and no access to a career.” –
Schneider Shorts 30.01.2026 – Daddy’s princess must return to Iran, Japanese professor bribed with brothel visits, retractions for a German sex pest and for Iranian genius in Poland, how racists hacked NIH and how microplastic pollution causes research fraud.
Schneider Shorts 3.10.2025 – Epstein and his academic friends, a Texas kleptomaniac, German professor innocent again,with an advice for PubPeer community, Scandinavian retractions, and finally, Springer Nature’s view on western blotting.
“We can always make mistakes in our publications but never acting intensionally. Regarding Prof. Eder works, I know him well and I don’t believe he has anything wrong” – Glaydson S. Dos Reis
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.
“I focus on the sprawling parody literature devoted to the three Es of Energy, Economy and the Environment. Together they […] freeload on the authentic literature on energy efficiency and pollution reduction (while diluting, distracting and discrediting them).” – Smut Clyde
Schneider Shorts 26.04.2024 – celebrity retraction in Science, An Italian papermiller under investigation in Norway, papermillers get own journal, an English professor asks for privacy, with publishers misbehaving, retraction retracted, and an Australian university finally finding out who faked everything.
“We are living in a faked world and there is a lot of un-verified avatars. “, Philippe Garrigues, EiC
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