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Nobel Prize laureates and predatory conferences – why such mutual attraction?
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Nobel Prize laureates and predatory conferences – why such mutual attraction?
Schneider Shorts 10.10.2025 – – how Nobel Magic works, a German Nobelist investigates again, a Polish professor out of the job, a wise fellow in Sweden, a cunning move from Denmark, with various retractions in Heliyon, Wiley behaving funny, and finally, with a scamference heir suing Canadian university.
Schneider Shorts 3.01.2025 – a Nobelist who never cared about money is dead, a board certified dermatopathologist fights hybrid attacks, with a russian papermiller in Kazakhstan, salami publishing, an unexpected retraction for a German biotech, and finally, with the most shameless corrections so far.
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 11.10.2024 – Cancer cures and Nobel Prize special with a British and a German businessman selling vaccine therapy, two oncology professors with fake figures, plus a Hungarian papermiller, and the real cause and cure for Alzheimer’s.
“I never agreed to collaborate with this organization. END OF STORY!” – Sir J Fraser Stoddart
“I do not know what your business is, and I find the email below highly offensive.” – Morten Meldal
Thomas Südhof, victim of racist and sexist persecution, announced to retract a second paper, “even though the quantitative analyses and conclusions are correct”.
“The professional bloggers are now trying to turn this into a question of research integrity which is deeply misleading, and claim that they are doing this not for financial gain. Judge for yourself!” – Thomas Südhof, Nobel Prize laureate
Schneider Shorts 2.02.2024 – Three stories about Dana Farber (including a Nobelist!), two stories about the Lille papermille (including a game!), with an “honest” plant scientist, doctors being rewarded, amazing corrections and informative retractions, and how another Nobelist’s cell therapy business ended up unsold.
Maarten van Kampen’s second attempt at hounding of Nobel papers.





