By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts 2.05.2025 – German ex-university president once again innocent, US ex-university president heads a big company, a Noble Genius awarded, with talking mice, papermills reaching Science, concerns expressed for male bigwigs, and finally, how to escape heart attack while drunk.
The Schneider Rule teaches that if you wish to meet many science cheaters you must follow one of them.
Schneider Shorts 8.03.2024 – Parkinson’s cured with Photoshop, Wiley abolishes COI policy, clean-up after sacked fraudsters, Bostonian reputations defended, retractions for Macchiarini and other science elites at QMUL, Stanford, Columbia and even for MDPI Jesus, and finally, PNAS special for Women’s Day!
“The mice probably wouldn’t care whether the experiment they suffered and died for was meaningful or not, but it does seem to matter to me. “- Sholto David
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.
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