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Nobel Prize laureates and predatory conferences – why such mutual attraction?
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Nobel Prize laureates and predatory conferences – why such mutual attraction?
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 – 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 – 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 – 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 5.09.2025 – An Englishman fell of his Chair, German doctors present with fake data, with Stanford’s research integrity heroes, one papermiller sacked in Australia, another awarded in Canada, how Wiley and Elsevier fight papermill fraud, and how ACS helps you lose weight.
Schneider Shorts 29.08.2025 – Little Britain special with an old crab in China, Glasgow maffia, a greedy dame, perks under the holly, and a citations improvement regime, plus peculiar corrections, and the health benefits of red meat and red light.
Schneider Shorts 15.08.2025 – how to cite only good sources, two Californian professors and one Canadian victimised by time-warp conspiracies, with a Nature Exclusive, Cell Press refusing retraction, a German professor papermilling, and Manhattan Project of Eugenics!
Schneider Shorts 8.08.2025 – publishers fighting papermills, retractions for an innocent man in Tennessee, an unemployed couple in Indiana, and a Korean award-winner, with an exclusive anti-aging conference, a dodgy startup, and finally, how to deal with critics.
“Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła,
Kiedy my żyjemy.
Co nam obca przemoc dała,
odpłacimy fabrykom artykułów.


