“Unreliable” by Csaba Szabo – book review and excerpt
Csaba Szabo’s book “Unreliable: Bias, Fraud, and the Reproducibility Crisis in Biomedical Research” – review by Zoltan Ungvari and excerpt.
Tag: paper mills
Veziroglu Journal of Papermill Energy
Mu Yang and other sleuths celebrate the scholarly publishing business of the late T Nejat Veziroglu, laureate of Santilli-Galilei Gold Medal for Lifetime Commitment to True Scientific Democracy
Schneider Shorts 27.12.2024 – Happy New Year (with MDPI)!
Schneider Shorts 27.12.2024 – Most-read articles of 2024, on dangers of social media, universities in Ireland and Czechia educating sleuths about fraud, naughty editors at Elsevier, a russian ork in USA disposes partner and two papers, more retractions for YouTube couple, and finally, Germany’s New Year resolutions which involve MDPI!
Schneider Shorts 20.12.2024 – A Christmas Carroll
Schneider Shorts 20.12.2024 – dirty old man now harmless enough to retract THAT paper, editors on a stealth mission, with an Italian chatbot, a Czech rector papermilling, a second investigation in Scotland, some crazy citation farming, and a sharp-eyed ophthalmology editor threatening sleuth with “repercussions”.
Nobelium Bilalski, a Gdansk papermiller
“To date, he has authored over 700 peer-reviewed articles, 150 book chapters, 25 edited books, and 10 editorial-type scientific articles in various areas of Science and Engineering. Dr. Bilal has a h-index of 94 with 34 000 citations (Google Scholar).”
Issues of global relevance
“I like ImageTwin, but seeing things with just eyes is like hand-to-hand combat….” – Mu Yang
Schneider Shorts 29.11.2024 – All organs are similar and identical
Schneider Shorts 29.11.2024 – an Alzheimer’s biotech in free fall, an Israeli Scientist explains the unexplainable, a German fraudster indicted, with a butterfly bully, good fellows and bad fellows, inconsistencies in PLOS One, and finally, with some hot chocolate to clean your brain.
Schneider Shorts 22.11.2024 – Harassed and threatened by pseudoscientists
Schneider Shorts 22.11.2024 – a witch-hunter’s obituary, a Nobelist awarded and awarding, a dirty old man protected in Marseille, mTORman funded in Czechia, a Polish mayor arrested, a superconductor wunderkind sacked, with Austro-Romanian papermilling, and retractions for various important men.
Schneider Shorts 15.11.2024 – Not a clinical research article with new data
Schneider Shorts 15.11.2024 – trouble in elite Canadian lab, leadership chaos at IEEE, cancer charity money put to good use in Italy, one Elsevier journal untouchable, another cleaned from papermillers, with a Polish professor betrayed, NIH fraudster’s first retractions, and finally, Patricia Murray vs stem cell clinics!
Shake the Stupid Tree and see what falls out
“Does this mean it’s time for an update on the bogus-citation economy? Leonid thought it is, and now you all must suffer for his misdirected priorities. ” – Smut Clyde
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