By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts 24.10.2025 – minibrained autism quacks poison Neanderthals, two sleuths expose massive FDA fail, journalists reveal secret investigation in Canada, California fraudster gets a lucky correction, Australian scholar offers discounts, and finally, how to avoid death with love hormone!
Schneider Shorts 2.05.2025 – German ex-university president once again innocent, US ex-university president heads a big company, a Noble Genius awarded, with talking mice, papermills reaching Science, concerns expressed for male bigwigs, and finally, how to escape heart attack while drunk.
Schneider Shorts 7.07.2023 – MDPI internal file leaked, editors attempting to rat out whistleblowers, scientists proud of IAAM awards, Nobelitis strikes again, with cloning fraudster’s new business, biotech’s new anti-aging drug, bad rector in Sicily, and finally, one honest researcher demanding retraction of his own paper.
Svante Pääbo, the father of paleogenomics, went funny before his Nobel Prize.
Schneider Shorts 5.08.2022 – russia’s useful idiots, Dr Oz’ emails to Dr Birx about Dr Raoult, with Harvard’s undead pigs, Weizmann’s artificial baby mice, Neanderthals trapped in the metaphase, four humours of depression, punished fraudsters, papermills, retractions, and new cures for cancer and obesity.
Schneider Shorts 5.08.2021: ivermectin-flavoured cigarettes, homeopathy, Ayurveda, and the scientists I have harassed in the past, the present and plan to harass in the future.
Schneider Shorts 23.07.2021: Pentagon declares war on old age, Cell being sneaky, French authorities not sure how to deal with fraud, with a suicide gene, more coffee, Neanderthals being stupid again and another Austrian genius saving the world from COVID-19.
Schneider Shorts 25.06.2021: telomere stretching in Milan and other COVID-19 cures, Best Lab Leak Ever Award, the elusive Pandolfi, coffee and chocolate, and hooray, Raoult & Chabriere finally announced on Twitter to sue yours truly in Marseille.
Schneider Shorts 30 April 2021: a stupid Neanderthals study, Sputnik V meltdown, German anti-maskers in MDPI, and probably the most unethical COVID-19 clinical trial.
The journal Science and the anthropology community manage an amazing feat of celebrating bullying, harassment and bad science while urinating upon Douglas Adams’ grave.
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