A Book That Will Never Be Read
“I cannot shake the feeling that we find ourselves in a publisher-papermill complex, powered largely by public funding. ” – Michal Wojcik
Tag: paper mills
Schneider Shorts 18.09.2026 – Go where the data takes you
Schneider Shorts 18.09.2026 – nobody is answering in Edinburgh and in Leeds, with a naughty professor in West Virginia, a retirement party in Paris, a lost paper in Strasbourg, some more retractions, and a sexual harasser who ran a Scottish university in Bahrain.
The subtleties a spectrograph would miss
“it seems the AI used for an anonymous commenter is not able to read the article and randomly comments on the article. […] Sometimes, we feel that some random person commenting on the article may not have the insight or technical expertise to evaluate the article. It seems your AI model used to write such comments is not fully operational and is making mistakes” – a scholar opines on Smut Clyde
Schneider Shorts 4.09.2026 -There were always rumours
Schneider Shorts 4.09.2026 – corruption in British cardiology, two cheaters dead but many more remain at Italian university, a drunk pervert ork fails his German university, the mystery of a Japanese twink in California, and why retractions are unsuitable for attractive people.
Graphyne Chronicles, Episode 2
“For every paper like these two, there are hundreds or thousands that stay. Not because they are more defensible. Because nobody had two years to spare.” – Valentin Rodionov
A Bingdi lotus is in bloom
“Mr. Efferth firmly rejects the suspicion raised against him of involvement in paper mill activities and in the publication of automatically generated publications.” – University of Mainz
Schneider Shorts 14.08.2026 – Setting yourself up for success: practical tips and advice
Schneider Shorts 14.08.2026 – man let down by two young women in Australia, two bullying divas set up a lab in the Swiss Alps, Chinese papermill issues purity certificate to Portuguese customer, with a German lion of the world being hunted, an Iranian genius welcomed all over Europe, and finally, where Retraction Watch went wrong again.
How Bernhard Sabel cured the blind and saved science
“What do science and “true love” have in common? Both are infatuated by passion, but if trust is lost, it is almost impossible to go back.” – Bernhard Sabel
Schneider Shorts 24.07.2026 – Peer-review process as a means of upholding scientific integrity
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!
Schneider Shorts 26.06.2026 – Net zero roadmap for accelerating papermill transition
Schneider Shorts 26.06.2026 – a German university sponsors papermills, picoparticles and visiting researchers havoc in Poland, British climate warrior loses first paper, plus more retractions for a man who never was to Czechia and for men who don’t even exist.
