In international affairs and paper mills
Alexander Magazinov would like you to meet an Iranian scholar named Ali Akbar Velayati.
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Alexander Magazinov would like you to meet an Iranian scholar named Ali Akbar Velayati.
Schneider Shorts 12.07.2024 – A cancer researcher under terrorist attack, where Retraction Watch went wrong, mass retractions for Indian Editor-in-Thief, a papermiller’s new adventures, a corrected Dana Farberication retracted, obituaries for two great researchers, and finally, a Polish rector proves that Leonid Schneider is a russian bot.
“your scatter gun approach has undermind a process that is undertaken confidentially […] It is sad that you are determined to undermine people’s reputations in the way you do.” – Queen’s University of Belfast to Sholto David.
a biotech fraudster indicted, a Swedish rector can’t stop papermilling, Oncotarget’s chief editor maliciously targeted, PLOS afraid of Italians but not of French, polluted journal cleaned up, a Texan paper falls, and finally, Chinese robots with minibrains ready to attack!
“There are therefore grounds for suspecting that there have been such serious deviations from good research practice that the matter should be referred to the National Board for Assessment of Research Misconduct for further investigation.”
“It’s not as if the Special-Issue Guest Editors or the imaginary ‘Peer Reviewers’ pay attention to the provenance of the images that fill the Figure-shaped gaps, or care whether the supposed alternatives in these horse-races are even algorithms at all.” – Smut Clyde
Schneider Shorts 14.06.2024 – – Killer surgeon goes to Spanish jail, Lion of the World whitewashed in Germany, with Italy’s superstar who publishes too much, an expert of research ethics, many retractions, Dutch antivaxxery, and you won’t believe what a stupid pillock Ajan is.
“Prof. Grzegorz Królczyk, Vice-Rector for Science and Development of the Opole University of Technology, was elected President of the Council for Innovation in Higher Education and Science.”
Schneider Shorts 31.05.2024 – New York pharma cheater guilty, image sleuth reveals secret identity, Iranian papermillers in Germany and Switzerland, Chinese editing ring with split personalities, ACS learns COPE guidelines, with shocking editorial practices, applied Australian research ethics, and finally, an industry whistleblower gaslighted.
Schneider Shorts 24.05.2024 – an Australian dean helps a young man from Iran, two British professors discover Asian papermills, Nature opens a smoking lounge, German doctors suffer tragic retractions, a special issue pulled due to Swedish professor, and how Cell Press bends over backwards for an angry old German man.





