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
Tag: paper mills
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
With Random Precision
“These skeezy fraud-friendly journals do have their uses. Once a papermill finds them, the fakes are concentrated in one place, undiluted by genuine research results, allowing a clear picture to crystallise and delineate its papermill style.” – Smut Clyde
Retraction blackmail – new service by Iranian papermills
“I was asked to pay in bitcoin to avoid retraction”. – Zbigniew Leonowicz
Schneider Shorts 2.08.2024 – Philosophical and Scientific Inquiry into the Limits of Divine Power
Schneider Shorts 2.08.2024 – Two British stem cell biotechs in trouble, a baldness cure found in Pakistan, papermill clean-up in Vietnam and Thailand, a guide on finding papermill experts, Kosta’s first retraction, and finally, a Polish chemist trolls back!
Bundesverdienst-Kümmerer am Bande
“Benign-by-design, circular economy in the plastics industry, biodegradable antibiotics – the sustainable design of chemistry is the central theme of Prof. Klaus Kümmerer’s work. “
Schneider Shorts 19.07.2024 – Critical voices from russia and Iran
Schneider Short 19.07.2024 – a good russian in Estonia, Iranian papermill special with an autophagy god and regime’s top elites, biotech founders sacked, a German in Portugal corrects papers, and finally, when Nature and Science papers become irrelevant.
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