Gardening goats and external papermills in Tübingen
One shooting and one falling star of University Clinic Tübingen. Meet the research ethics champion Julia Skokowa and the eternally affiliated Renaissance Man Reza Akhavan-Sigari,
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Karimipour Saga III: All roads lead to Rome
“The academic career of D’Orazio is tightly coupled to that of Karimipour since she hosted him at Sapienza. Of the 57 papers she declared authorship for, 25 (44%) are published together with Karimipour.” – Maarten van Kmapen
Karimipour Saga II: Vietnamese Bauhaus
“[Timon Rabczuk] is happily accepting 2 million euro of European money, whilst at the same time optimizing his return-on-investment on Vietnamese affiliation scam and cashing in on his ‘highly cited researcher’ accolades by also posing as King Saud researcher.” – Maarten van Kampen
Schneider Shorts 5.04.2024 – Before the current atmosphere of prosecution
Schneider Shorts 5.04.2024 – angry old Nobelist hounded again, one German professor whitewashed, another told to find new friends, Iranian student in Finland admits buying authorships, Polish vice-rector brings papermilling home, more retractions for Italian ex-rector, and finally, with an obituary to anti-aging researcher.
Karimipour Saga I: Setting Boundaries
“The business of selling authorships and citations needs a steady supply of paper-shaped vehicles. It is most efficient to produce these in assembly lines that focus on a narrow topic.” – Maarten van Kampen
Schneider Shorts 29.03.2024 – How many children did you heal?
Schneider Shorts 29.03.2024 – German medical elites special: with Gender, Diversity and a retirement party in Ulm, an incomplete investigation in Göttingen, naughty mentees of a Heidelberg pharmacologist, plus investigation outcomes in USA, King’s first retraction, and why you must have a coffee right now.
Schneider Shorts 15.03.2024 – Whistleblowers are not do-gooders who want to save the Occident
Schneider Shorts of 15.03.2024 – Alzheimer cures from China, Spain and the FDA, a nasty ork sanctioned in Germany, with a Lord of the Biochar Rings, medals for the bestest science ever, a brain breakthrough, and finally, what can University of Ulm do against Schneider?
Schneider Shorts 23.02.2024 – Commitment to upholding integrity and accuracy
Schneider Shorts of 23.02.2024 – MDPI’s war on Ukraine, naughty Italian editor at Elsevier, Frontiers shocked by cartoon penis, with an attention-seeking Nobelist, a half-investigation in Bochum, Finnish thief and abuser in Denmark, and a fake lizard finally exposed.
A Critique of Pure Reason
“the rarest, most sought-after token of recognition is when the Chen brothers steal your identity to use as a fictive co-author on one of their plagiarism gallimaufreys. For instance, “Bunnitru Daleanu” was based on (and memorialises) the nonpareil Rumanian mathematician Dumitru Baleanu – now resident in Turkey” – Smut Clyde
Look What the Cat Dragged In
Meet Mohammad Taheri, PhD, a humble PhD student in Jena, Germany, and his equally unremarkable Iranian associate Dr Soudeh Ghafouri-Fard.
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