Professor Grune’s diet of dodgy blots
As German TV asks Tilman Grune what he will eat in the future, I have other questions for him.
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
As German TV asks Tilman Grune what he will eat in the future, I have other questions for him.
Schneider Shorts 19.09.2025 – Schneider reported to German police, authorship disputes resolved in Switzerland, honesty researcher sued for double-fraud, a Romanian honoured by learned society, with a German in russia, post-mortem retractions, Brazilian brain damage, and finally, did you ever hear of bacterial mitochondria?
Schneider Shorts 5.09.2025 – An Englishman fell of his Chair, German doctors present with fake data, with Stanford’s research integrity heroes, one papermiller sacked in Australia, another awarded in Canada, how Wiley and Elsevier fight papermill fraud, and how ACS helps you lose weight.
Schneider Shorts 29.08.2025 – Little Britain special with an old crab in China, Glasgow maffia, a greedy dame, perks under the holly, and a citations improvement regime, plus peculiar corrections, and the health benefits of red meat and red light.
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 18.04.2025 – An oasis of fraud at UCL, Swiss professor wins a coveted medal, Britain’s research integrity chair defended by Wiley, retractions for British scholars and for Nigerian one-man papermill, and the various ways of how silly science can get.
Schneider Shorts 28.02.2025 – what Scottish professor and Italian MP have in common, a Croatian genius and his friends, a US inventor with sponge and teabag, with Elsevier afraid of a stalker, a premature correction, sexy retractions, and finally, what to consume against obesity and diabetes.
Schneider Shorts 29.11.2024 – an Alzheimer’s biotech in free fall, an Israeli Scientist explains the unexplainable, a German fraudster indicted, with a butterfly bully, good fellows and bad fellows, inconsistencies in PLOS One, and finally, with some hot chocolate to clean your brain.
Schneider Shorts 21.06.2024 – Nobelist hounded again, retractions for stem cell and superconductor zombies, nine things melatonin does, EMBO being unstoppable, with coffee and cheese, a Declaration of Marseille, an obituary to Chinese virologist, plus proud scamferencers, a German breakthrough in Iran, and finally, what it takes to become associate editor.
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!

