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Tag: Sholto David
Schneider Shorts 23.10.2026 – Responsibility in the Conduct of Science
Schneider Shorts 23.10.2026 – a steaming turd wins defamation lawsuit, a mass resignation in Ulm, an AI tool from Harvard to predict your death, a Norwegian expert in AI ethics, with misinformed cell lines, a corrected retraction, and finally, with demented dementia research in Portugal.
Schneider Shorts 28.08.2026 – Liberalism’s fertility problem
Schneider Shorts 28.08.2026 – racism affair in Ghent explodes in all directions, a German university deals with a Nazi doctor, another German university has been rigging Wikipedia, retractions for scholars in Italy and USA, and finally, a new antibody kerfuffle uncovered.
Do bacteria grow old as we do?
“Once again I am left wondering what to make of these research teams that cheerfully go on generating impossible results, either they don’t write the methods truthfully or they don’t write the results truthfully and neither one is better than the other.” – Sholto David
Schneider Shorts 22.05.2026 – See them all moving around in their artificial eggs
Schneider Shorts 22.95.2026 – an obituary for great Italian cancer researcher, Thermo Fisher being Unscientific, Polish patriots fight russian agents, a Thai papermiller reinvents himself, with corrections and concerns, with Korean magnetism in genetics, and finally, beware of Colossal eggs hatching!
Perfect Blots
“A coordinated review of the cited publications and underlying data is currently underway” – Hiroki Kuniyasu
Scientific Reports 2025: A Year in Review
“In this blog I write about papers published by Scientific Reports in 2025, so we could consider it to be a sort of “wrap-up” of highlights and special achievements in the world’s biggest scientific journal™ in 2025.” – Sholto David
Schneider Shorts 19.12.2025 – Merry Christmas!
Schneider Shorts 19.12.2025- sleuth wins reward in a lawsuit, an Italian cheater can’t stop lying, with retractions for failed and failing science elites, a Nature expert investigation, and US scholars escaping with corrections.
Luck in Sight
“It seems hard to accept any explanation that doesn’t somehow incriminate most of the people involved” – Sholto David
One Decade of For Better Science
Inclusive: For Better Science is 10 years old!
