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
Tag: paper mills
The Incorrigible Elsevier
“I woke up seeing Elsevier’s giant middle finger in front of my face.” – Mu Yang
Schneider Shorts 11.10.2024 – Tokens of scientific legitimacy
Schneider Shorts 11.10.2024 – Cancer cures and Nobel Prize special with a British and a German businessman selling vaccine therapy, two oncology professors with fake figures, plus a Hungarian papermiller, and the real cause and cure for Alzheimer’s.
Schneider Shorts 4.10.2024 – A Nobel Prize candidate who saved numerous lives
Schneider Shorts 4.10.2024 – Rapamycin advocate loses battle with cancer, Switzerland’s Twitter celebrity in trouble, Australia’s melanoma program run by two fraudsters, a papermilling dean in Canada, a harassed innocent angel in Mexico, a Belgian phantom, with book chapters tombstoned, retractions for stars in USA and Italy, and finally, with a failed drug to cure long COVID.
Schneider Shorts 27.09.2024 – A faked character with faked prison matters
Schneider Shorts 27.09.2024 – Greek professor sentenced to prison for extortion, superconductor discovery questioned, reproducibility breakthrough retracted, Spanish foundation chair appointed, MDPI editors exposed, all Elsevier authors replaced, with an innocent rector in Sweden, anti-aging solutions, monkeys predicting US elections, fighting mice, and lots of other nonsense.
Grinding slowly but exceeding small
“I have no idea what is happening here, but fortunately it is not my job to adjudicate questions of who stole what from whom.” – Smut Clyde
Nobelists advertise for russian papermill?
“I never agreed to collaborate with this organization. END OF STORY!” – Sir J Fraser Stoddart
“I do not know what your business is, and I find the email below highly offensive.” – Morten Meldal
Schneider Shorts 30.08.2024 – Institutions cannot spend every waking hour reviewing PubPeer comments
Schneider Shorts 30.08.2024 – lawyers advise universities about PubPeer, a spoiled brat in Liverpool gets a new toy, an Italian role model gets her first retractions, low standards in Cleveland, with fake and stolen identities, a failed defamation lawsuit, and finally, how US government supports new brains for immortality.
Schneider Shorts 23.08.2024 – We understand this is frustrating
Schneider Shorts 23.08.2024 – why an mpox drug failed, Slovak professor’s dirty secret, Italian alpha male’s second retraction, Kazakh-Hungarian collaboration spammed, with confusion about sold authorships, tricky assays, a book of curcumin, and finally, with ACS setting priorities straight.
Stratosfear
“Here we see a somewhat phallic balloon-like structure which has presumably collapsed under low pressure. A “proboscis” is seen emerging from the left of the main cell which has two, nostril-like openings. At the top of the collapsed “balloon” is a sphincter-like opening.” – Milton Waiinright
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