Decline and Fall
“Gather round the campfire, everyone, while Uncle Smut regales you with another blood-chilling, spine-curdling tale… this time, about psychologists not sciencing properly.” – Smut Clyde
Tag: psychology
Schneider Shorts 25.10.2024 – All those errors occurred inadvertently
Schneider Shorts 25.10.2024 – successful papermilling in Canada and Germany, less successful papermilling in Spain and Ukraine, an open letter to Springer, UK Biobank letting bad guys in, with a dead psychologist, a Spanish cancer warrior in France, an evaporated water institute, haggling Vietnamese, and finally, why coffee and alcohol are good news.
All you zombies
“Personally I prefer cats to humans because they are little furry psychopaths so we are on the same wavelength.” – Smut Clyde
The Stress of Her Regard
“Colin A Ross […] is also Data Point #4 in support of my theory that ‘Psychiatrists are consistently crazypants’. Cases #1 to #3 being Hans Eysenck, Peter Gøtzsche and Hannibal Lecter.” – Smut Clyde
Schneider Shorts 9.08.2024 – Rector Lorenc, we will not be intimidated
Schneider Shorts 9.08.2024 – Polish rector extorts journalists for money as yet another papermiller is installed, how to look like an Israeli Scientist, sleuth’s boss accused of fraud, retractions for innocent Italians, Sicilian man gets a new job, and finally, an obituary on another master from Messina.
Bullies and Harassers of Cologne
“the professor insults her doctoral students, calling them “stupid”, “useless” or “retarded”, for example. She is said to sometimes require her employees to work more than 80 hours a week. The report speaks of a “quasi-feudal relationship of dependence” and a “climate of fear” at the institute in question.”
Schneider Shorts 19.04.2024 – Endemic diffusion of fraudulent research
Schneider Shorts 19.04.2024 – Nobelist defended by fellow German man, two progeny sons of successful fathers, retractions for various Italian bigwigs, papermill fraud professionally corrected, with a neuroscience breakthrough only few people can master, censorship at a Dutch university, and finally, how to have more sex with Frontiers.
Schneider Shorts 4.08.2023 – Validated and supported by numerous other publications
Schneider Shorts 4.08.2023 – Royal Academy terrorizing critic of St Carlos of Oviedo, litigious honesty experts proven as total frauds, brain disorders and bodybuilding, with spaghetti tumours, bullying and harassment, several retractions (one 22 years delayed), and finally, an Italian mentee of US bigwig informs about correct thinking.
Stuck with Hommel, or Bad Choices in Leiden
“Scientific articles often have more than one author, with different contributions and responsibilities. It cannot be the case that in all events of demonstrated malpractice in publications, where one or more authors have been shown to have breached the scientific integrity, all other authors are therefore suspect without any further indication.” Leiden University defends Bernhard Hommel
Schneider Shorts 3.02.2023 – Where have all retractions gone?
Schneider Shorts 3.02.2023 – German trachea transplanters forgot to retract 7 papers, a bullying psychologist in Sweden, a colossal wanker with a dodo, ERC thanks an expert, German EiC leaves havoc behind, an EMBO editor has some explaining to do, and finally, how ethics at Cambridge and Oxford University Presses work.
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