Marginalised and isolated in academic publishing activities
A history professor remains a valuable peer even if credibly accused of sexual harassment. And even of plagiarism? Will they still defend him with their letters?
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
A history professor remains a valuable peer even if credibly accused of sexual harassment. And even of plagiarism? Will they still defend him with their letters?
Schneider Shorts 23.01.2026 – German professor accused of sexual assault defended by peers, Italian cheater defended by former mentor, Daddy’s darling wins in court, antivaxxer loses in court, retractions for elite US scholars and elite Malaysian papermillers, and finally, what to eat to live till 100!
Schneider Shorts 1.08.2025 – Norwegian university fights against retractions, obituary to an American giant, Indian retraction leads to cheaters in Wisconsin, with Turkey’s Elon Musk, some amusing corrections, and finally, with a sexually harassed sexual harasser in Spain!
Schneider Shorts 4.04.2025 – cancer center director in USA and university rector in Austria need to check their papers, Egyptian geniuses recycle a spectrum 12 times, with amazing corrections by ACS and Elsevier, Nazi paper retracted, and finally, a Dutch sexual predator sacked by court order.
Schneider Shorts 28.03.2025 – a sexual harassers special, a multimillionaire sponsors a sleuth-on-a-leash, COPE officer loses her only paper, how to troll Elsevier, with cheaters in Florida and breakthroughs in degenerative medicine in Japan and USA.
Does being a science genius entitle you to sexual harassment, as academic authorities in Yale and elsewhere insist? Let’s look at papers by Michael Simons, Joseph Schlessinger and Arnold Levine.
“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 12.04.2024 – three Shorts only this time, with a superconductive fraudster who lied about everything, a role model for WomenInSTEM in UK, and a sexual harasser first protected, then sacked by UN research institute.
Schneider Shorts of 15.03.2024 – Alzheimer cures from China, Spain and the FDA, a nasty ork sanctioned in Germany, with a Lord of the Biochar Rings, medals for the bestest science ever, a brain breakthrough, and finally, what can University of Ulm do against Schneider?
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.



