By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts 9.01.2026 – PubSmear mob tries to suppress the truth about vaccines, a billionaire rescues a damsel in distress, with a new kind of editorial note, a German-Italian cure for cancer, and with another old English tale of corruption and patient abuse.
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 28.02.2025 – what Scottish professor and Italian MP have in common, a Croatian genius and his friends, a US inventor with sponge and teabag, with Elsevier afraid of a stalker, a premature correction, sexy retractions, and finally, what to consume against obesity and diabetes.
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!
Schneider Shorts 18.10.2024 – obituary for one of the few upright academics, horrid abuse by Dutch archaeologist revealed in lawsuit, MDPI causes death of Romanian employee, a society publisher has enough of pesky sleuths, big alpha males retract papers, and finally, with hyperbaric oxygen scam in UK.
Schneider Shorts 2.02.2024 – Three stories about Dana Farber (including a Nobelist!), two stories about the Lille papermille (including a game!), with an “honest” plant scientist, doctors being rewarded, amazing corrections and informative retractions, and how another Nobelist’s cell therapy business ended up unsold.
NPOF, again and again: “Philipp Jungebluth and Paolo Macchiarini guilty of research misconduct” Lancet: “Paolo Macchiarini is not guilty of scientific misconduct”
Schneider Shorts 3.03.2023 – Lab leak theory of COVID-19 escapes peer review, sadist professor in Germany (almost) exposed, various takes on the usefulness of academic friendship, with a stem cell breakthrough, Lancet and COPE bashed, and finally, why single men smell so nice.
Schneider Shorts 6.01.2023 – lawsuit warnings from cardiology society and from editor against whistleblowers, an elite nanotech lab terminated in Czechia, award-winning cheater’s first retraction, more papermilling at Germany, humour by research fraudsters, and why your kids must play video games.
Schneider Shorts 18.11.2022 – a Spanish university hunts “Nazis”, Indian elites flock to a scamference, publishers embracing fraud, WHO embracing papermills, the fall of COPE, with a Dutch sexual harasser, Saudi and Egyptian data forgers, other science elites in a race to the bottom, and a diet advice to eat sand.
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