An expert criticism by fraudsters and antivaxxers: the case of PubPeer
“A concerning trend is the rise of “hyper-skepticism”” – ChatGPT
Tag: paper mills
The Fribourg Declaration
“The papermill crisis is not an external attack on science but a mirror held up to its dysfunctional ecosystem. The for-profit publishing industry, posing as a newly found saviour of research integrity, is in fact its chief beneficiary and enabler.” – Csaba Szabo
Schneider Shorts 14.11.2025 – Having all these women around makes it more fun for the men
Schneider Shorts 14.11.2025 – undead vampire is dead, Harvard researcher laments grant loss, BMJ concerned about having been duped, with another Italian cheater, a rascist identity thief, a Hungarian multi-professor, and finally, how Springer Nature and Elsevier fight papermill fraud!
Schneider Shorts 7.11.2025 – No data were falsified or fabricated in any way
Schneider Shorts 7.11.2025 – an obituary for a rector who published too much, another German professor pestered by sleuths, Canada’s superstar and his mentees, Wiley’s haphazard approach to papermills, and finally, when corner clones are not OK.
BMJ invaded by Iranian papermill
“Patients with weak heart function who receive stem cell therapy shortly after a heart attack are at lower risk of developing heart failure and related hospital stays compared with standard care, finds a clinical trial published by The BMJ today.”
USERN-friendly Nobelists
Nobel Prize laureates and predatory conferences – why such mutual attraction?
Schneider Shorts 10.10.2025 – A forum for finding irrelevant ‘issues’ that pillory young scientists
Schneider Shorts 10.10.2025 – – how Nobel Magic works, a German Nobelist investigates again, a Polish professor out of the job, a wise fellow in Sweden, a cunning move from Denmark, with various retractions in Heliyon, Wiley behaving funny, and finally, with a scamference heir suing Canadian university.
Schneider Shorts 3.10.2025 – A waste of everyone’s time
Schneider Shorts 3.10.2025 – Epstein and his academic friends, a Texas kleptomaniac, German professor innocent again,with an advice for PubPeer community, Scandinavian retractions, and finally, Springer Nature’s view on western blotting.
Schneider Shorts 26.09.2025 – We will take serious clown action against you
Schneider Shorts 26.09.2025 – Why papermilling is good: perspectives from university’s legal counsel in Denmark, Nobel laureate and his mentee in UK, Pakistani scholars in Poland, with a cure for Huntington’s and resurrected dodo, and finally, why all hope is lost for US immunology.
Schneider Shorts 12.09.2025 – For artistic and illustration purposes only
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.
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