Bottom of the barrel: Nanofluids & Chamkha
“Did you know that Chamkha is “Ranked in the World’s Top 0.02267% Scientist”? Or that he “Completed all degrees in a record time of five years”?” – Maarten van Kampen
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
“Did you know that Chamkha is “Ranked in the World’s Top 0.02267% Scientist”? Or that he “Completed all degrees in a record time of five years”?” – Maarten van Kampen
Schneider Shorts 3.03.2023 – Lab leak theory of COVID-19 escapes peer review, sadist professor in Germany (almost) exposed, various takes on the usefulness of academic friendship, with a stem cell breakthrough, Lancet and COPE bashed, and finally, why single men smell so nice.
“I could not comprehend the situation where a university picks up on individuals with an extraordinary and sterling performance and basically destroy one of the top European institutions. ” – Raj Varma
Schneider Shorts 24.02.2023 – Macchiarini trial reopens in Sweden, Stanford’s president’s dark past, UCLA dentists continue terrorizing whistleblower, with an open letter to CNRS, Quora revelations, journals dealing with papermill fraud, genius discoveries, and finally, a China-owned T&F journal spewing genocide propaganda.
“For once I am not accusing the journal editors and peer-reviewers of incompetence and dereliction, nor calling for the literature reviewers who cite these fictions to be cashiered in the scholastic equivalent of a court-martial.”- Smut Clyde
Schneider Shorts 17.02.2023 – Lancet’s concern for murderous surgeon, a world-renowned innovator comes to Czechia, multi-hazard approach to engineering publishing, chronic lymericks at MDPI, fake Georgians at Hindawi, with cinnamon magic from Iran, a pharma giant with a new job, and finally, Nobel facials for you to buy (if you can afford them).
Schneider Shorts 10.02.2023 – an anonymous attack team harasses a Californian poet, a brothel with pipettes just for mTORman, Sicilian scholars fighting retractions, other Sicilian scholars going Egypt, with Photoshop classics, Antarctic predators, and yet another amazing correction by Wiley.
Schneider Shorts 3.02.2023 – German trachea transplanters forgot to retract 7 papers, a bullying psychologist in Sweden, a colossal wanker with a dodo, ERC thanks an expert, German EiC leaves havoc behind, an EMBO editor has some explaining to do, and finally, how ethics at Cambridge and Oxford University Presses work.
Schneider Shorts 20.012023 – an Imperial retraction, investigators appointed in Stanford, a sexual harasser arrives in Harvard, greedy crook reverses aging, with another Cassava paper whitewashed, the secret of high impact factors, why some Italian fraudster’s papers are safe.
“In the various excellent texts on paper mills the question is discussed why Naunyn-Schmiedebergs Archives of Pharmacology has become a target for fake papers. I oppose the assumption that we simply want to fill pages with pseudo-scientific content. We actually look for quality and good science.” – Prof Dr Roland Seifert, Editor-in-Chief




