By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts 21.02.2025 – Germany special with my plea to German voters, a russia-lover in Hamburg, an animal friend in Magdeburg, a decisive art historian in Cottbus, and an Iran-loving German in Poland, plus other stories of a Californian urologist, a papermill gang, and mass retractions in Elsevier to save one greedy Spanish man.
Schneider Shorts of 14.01.2022 – cannabis for COVID-19, Retraction Watch catches two lady fraudsters, with Spain’s science elites, Portugal’s greatest cancer researcher, a successful pig heart, Frontiers swamped by papermills, lab leak not always a conspiracy theory, and a dirty old man in Marseille unleashing a mob against own daughter.
Schneider Shorts 17.12.2021 – Russian mathematicians plead for support of abused colleague, bullying MRC boss to head EMBO, two scientists retracting their second paper, another Uyghur genomics paper retracted, mass-retractions at papermill-infested journal, COVID-19 cure from Florida, and a dead harasser’s sister fundraising to sue his victims.
Schneider Shorts 13.08.2021: new Operation Cytokine Storm – the sequel, the REAL origin of COVID-19, News in Brief from China, new Nature Shit journal with new study on stool transplants against old age, Russians can bullshit, too, and a demented old man in Marseille with Vicks VapoRub up his nose.
Smut Clyde celebrates here a highly successful US cancer research lab at University of Rochester. Its head is Chawnshang “Chainsaw” Chang, and his most productive scientist is Soo “Not” Ok Lee.
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