By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts 11.04.2025 – US neuroscientist still shell-shocked by Italian postdoc’s fraud, a fantasy wolf de-exticted, an expert investigation in Berlin, and with retractions for past and current MD Anderson researchers, a German-Iranian papermiller, and a Mexican victim of persecution.
“There are no capital requirements or significant technological barriers, anyone can create papers by rewriting already published works, either themselves or with the assistance of ChatGPT or other software. With a Telegram channel or WhatsApp group the papermiller can easily organise the sale of authorship” – Nick Wise
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.
One shooting and one falling star of University Clinic Tübingen. Meet the research ethics champion Julia Skokowa and the eternally affiliated Renaissance Man Reza Akhavan-Sigari,
Schneider Shorts 23.06.2023 – Italian killer surgeon gets sentenced to 2.5 years in Sweden, Harvard’s honesty expert exposed as fraudster, German university refuses to investigate papermiller, with ACS being naughty again, anti-aging breakthroughs in MDPI, and finally, an accidental sickness in Wuhan in November 2019.
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