By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
“Every now and again, it is a good idea to open the door of the clown car that is MD Anderson, and see who climbs out. Today is the turn of Kapil N. Bhalla. If you say his name quickly, it sounds a bit like “capybara”” – Sholto David
“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 16.02.2024 – a doctor sacked for death of patients cures cancer in Austria, science with sell-by date, Italian geniuses cracking cancer, autism and Alzheimer’s, mass retraction of totalitarian science, an incomplete Frontiers retraction, and finally, a Ukrainian genius betrayed by Iranian friends.
Schneider Shorts 26.01.2024 – Harvard story explodes in US media, a cheater sues former student, with rat torturers in Italy, publishers being naughty, a special editorial achievement, Nigerian scams, an elusive Greek behind retractions, and why all Germans must publish in Frontiers now.
“Imagine what mistakes might be found in the raw data if anyone was allowed to look!” – Sholto David
Schneider Shorts 22.12.2023 – trachea transplanters in London wish to continue, retractions happening when hope was lost, Welsh approach to papermilling, with an Italian researcher harassed, a role model debunked, and finally, with Sholto’s Science Police Christmas special!
“The President’s goal of ending cancer as we know it today is grounded, in part, in the work of scientific discovery that Ned Sharpless has led at NCI”
“Why do successful and apparently intelligent surgeons feel the need to play pretend at biology research? Has Sam S. Yoon ever performed an invasion or migration assay? […] if this is how he “supervises” his research does anyone trust his supervision of surgery?” – Sholto David
“What exactly will Lash and Elsevier do with these 115 problematic papers? I can only expect a painfully inadequate response.” – Sholto David
Schneider Shorts of 8.09.2023 – a German party has science on its side, a retired fraudster sanctioned by ORI, a journal scrutinised, putin’s daughter publishes in MDPI, with high- and low-profile retractions, an Israeli-super-genius, brain hacks, and finally, why russo-iranian papermillers are false friends.
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