By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts 12.09.2025 – obituary for the great protector of women in science, concerns for another woman in science (also at MIT), first retraction to break the ice in Germany, with a Swedish papermiller, some cancer researchers in the UK, and finally, with a brainlessly shameful correction.
Schneider Shorts 22.08.2025 – an obituary for an Italian haematologist, a Spanish guru returns from Bhutan, concerns for Italian cardiologist in Bristol, with an Irish mystery, a setback for Germany’s Weltlöwe, retractions issued and rescinded, failed alchemy, and finally, with Church on Friday, again!
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 25.10.2024 – successful papermilling in Canada and Germany, less successful papermilling in Spain and Ukraine, an open letter to Springer, UK Biobank letting bad guys in, with a dead psychologist, a Spanish cancer warrior in France, an evaporated water institute, haggling Vietnamese, and finally, why coffee and alcohol are good news.
Schneider Shorts 18.10.2024 – obituary for one of the few upright academics, horrid abuse by Dutch archaeologist revealed in lawsuit, MDPI causes death of Romanian employee, a society publisher has enough of pesky sleuths, big alpha males retract papers, and finally, with hyperbaric oxygen scam in UK.
Schneider Shorts 4.10.2024 – Rapamycin advocate loses battle with cancer, Switzerland’s Twitter celebrity in trouble, Australia’s melanoma program run by two fraudsters, a papermilling dean in Canada, a harassed innocent angel in Mexico, a Belgian phantom, with book chapters tombstoned, retractions for stars in USA and Italy, and finally, with a failed drug to cure long COVID.
Schneider Shorts 13.09.2024 – obituary for an editor, new Swiss rules for authorship, Top Italian Scientist illicitly loses her first paper, an innocent Spanish rector faces retractions, dishonest dishonesty researcher loses lawsuit, with a scandalized German papermiller, concerns and reservations, and finally, with Nazis welcomed by society journal.
Schneider Shorts 9.08.2024 – Polish rector extorts journalists for money as yet another papermiller is installed, how to look like an Israeli Scientist, sleuth’s boss accused of fraud, retractions for innocent Italians, Sicilian man gets a new job, and finally, an obituary on another master from Messina.
Schneider Shorts 12.07.2024 – A cancer researcher under terrorist attack, where Retraction Watch went wrong, mass retractions for Indian Editor-in-Thief, a papermiller’s new adventures, a corrected Dana Farberication retracted, obituaries for two great researchers, and finally, a Polish rector proves that Leonid Schneider is a russian bot.
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