By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts 21.11.2025 – with long Shorts about a fountain of youth found in grape seeds, rodents tortured for fake science in Brazil, an Iranian papermill operating from Canada, plus second servings for French couple and a Danish wildlife ecologist.
“We can always make mistakes in our publications but never acting intensionally. Regarding Prof. Eder works, I know him well and I don’t believe he has anything wrong” – Glaydson S. Dos Reis
CNRS research director Jolanda Spadavecchia was sanctioned with two years suspension for “serious and repeated breaches of her duty of scientific integrity”, 19 retractions were requested.
Schneider Shorts 6.12.2024 – a family business with pelvic implants, whitewashing in France, NIH sabotaged from inside, fraud funded in Australia, with Iranian papermills, unethical trials in Sweden, US Congress on COVID origins, and finally, how cannabis consume causes fake data and chocolate avoidance causes 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 20.09.2024 – A Californian man and his trusty clock, Oded’s Dad and other Israeli Scientists, first retractions for a French couple, an Indiana man and an Iranian papermiller, an Elsevier book facing removal, with funny corrections, ex-editor bemoaning a conspiracy and finally, with a concussion device getting pummelled.
Schneider Shorts of 23.02.2024 – MDPI’s war on Ukraine, naughty Italian editor at Elsevier, Frontiers shocked by cartoon penis, with an attention-seeking Nobelist, a half-investigation in Bochum, Finnish thief and abuser in Denmark, and a fake lizard finally exposed.
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.
French nanotechnologists Sabine Szunerits and Rabah Boukherroub put EU Commission’s money to good use. The EU cannot afford a papermill gap to Iran and China!
Schneider Shorts 6.10.2023 – what really happened to deleted US professor, a scientist in France needs IT assistance, rigorous peer review at work, with hand-made spectra, sneaked references and many retractions, for Nobelists, papermills and other cheaters, big and small.
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