By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts 25.07.2025 – Iranian papermiller investigated in Germany and Australia, another Iranian papermiller works for Church, with magic mushrooms, big money from Turkey, corrections and retractions for Italian scholars, and finally, the many things one can do with francium.
A guide on what qualities universities in Germany, Italy and elsewhere in Europe expect from their foreign PhD students and postdocs.
Schneider Shorts 20.06.2025 – Greatest Italian of All Times honoured in Rome, a Turkish kleptomaniac busted, Nobel scammer and his Ajan get Emirates money, Elsevier corrects some past mistakes, and other limits to publication ethics.
Schneider Shorts 7.03.2025 – Royal Society salutes Nazi oligarch, Belgian university uses poverty excuse, Chinese surgeons cure Alzheimer’s, with an untrustworthy Italian biotech, a revised correction, circular plagiarism, even more retractions, an erased paper, and finally, with mice turned into mammoths!
Schneider Shorts 6.12.2024 – a family business with pelvic implants, whitewashing in France, NIH sabotaged from inside, fraud funded in Australia, with Iranian papermills, unethical trials in Sweden, US Congress on COVID origins, and finally, how cannabis consume causes fake data and chocolate avoidance causes diabetes.
Alexander Magazinov would like you to meet an Iranian scholar named Ali Akbar Velayati.
Schneider Shorts 7.06.2024 – Papermillers never die, New Declaration of Helsinki, a failed crusade for scientific truth, with two “doing the right thing” retractions, sole culprit found 11 years later, a publisher cleanup, and finally, with a Nobelist’s grandson who wants to sell you pomegranate supplements.
Schneider Shorts 31.05.2024 – New York pharma cheater guilty, image sleuth reveals secret identity, Iranian papermillers in Germany and Switzerland, Chinese editing ring with split personalities, ACS learns COPE guidelines, with shocking editorial practices, applied Australian research ethics, and finally, an industry whistleblower gaslighted.
Schneider Shorts 24.05.2024 – an Australian dean helps a young man from Iran, two British professors discover Asian papermills, Nature opens a smoking lounge, German doctors suffer tragic retractions, a special issue pulled due to Swedish professor, and how Cell Press bends over backwards for an angry old German man.
Meet Mohammad Taheri, PhD, a humble PhD student in Jena, Germany, and his equally unremarkable Iranian associate Dr Soudeh Ghafouri-Fard.
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