USERN-friendly Nobelists
Nobel Prize laureates and predatory conferences – why such mutual attraction?
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Nobel Prize laureates and predatory conferences – why such mutual attraction?
Schneider Shorts 17.01.2025 – Ex-rector acquitted in Germany, YouTube couple guilty of fraud in Sweden, papermiller kicked out in Poland, with a whodunit retraction, retractions for papermillers and russian scamferencers, and finally, testing the limits of permissible in scholarly publishing.
Schneider Shorts 21.06.2024 – Nobelist hounded again, retractions for stem cell and superconductor zombies, nine things melatonin does, EMBO being unstoppable, with coffee and cheese, a Declaration of Marseille, an obituary to Chinese virologist, plus proud scamferencers, a German breakthrough in Iran, and finally, what it takes to become associate editor.
“There is a justified concrete suspicion that third-party funders would from their side terminate the financial support of our client because of the above mentioned representation of our client. This would lead to significant financial losses.”
Schneider Shorts 28.07.2023 – shocking practices at Shock, forged clinical trials in Italy exposed by UK academics, another phony superconductor announced, two clever methods to prevent Alzheimer’s, an unusual way to earn with scamferences, and finally, London professor’s quack scam under investigation.
Schneider Shorts 7.07.2023 – MDPI internal file leaked, editors attempting to rat out whistleblowers, scientists proud of IAAM awards, Nobelitis strikes again, with cloning fraudster’s new business, biotech’s new anti-aging drug, bad rector in Sicily, and finally, one honest researcher demanding retraction of his own paper.
Schneider Shorts 24.03.2023 – a Chinese double-bluff with raccoon dogs, an Italian professor defends his Iranian papers, other Italian professors honored with Swedish medals, with green energy retractions In USA, a Spanish papermiller in russia, a Persian fallen star in Germany, and finally, yet another pervert German professor unnamed.
Schneider Shorts 21.10.2022 – a German stealth professor of psychology at Columbia, a visiting fraudster at Imperial College, a scamference amateur at Nuttingham Trash University, retractions in UK, US and elsewhere, a racist hiding in plain sight, a far-right conspiracist conference at Stanford, and finally, an OA Gospel of Frontiers.
Schneider Shorts 14.10.2022 – the mystery past of Dresden rector, a sacked dean in Czechia, a Don’t mess with Texas mega-correction in Nature, concerns expressed for Sicilian nepotist fraudsters, an indignant Weizmann scientist, scamferences legalised in Würzburg, and new fun stories of the Hindawi papermill!
Four years after Ashutosh Tiwari’s scamferences and research fraud were exposed, his impressive-sounding yet fictional “International Association of Advanced Materials”, or IAAM, still opens doors, hearts and wallets.



