In Memoriam: Professor Laurentiu “Telocyte” Popescu (1944-2015)
“The idea to call the newly discovered cells telocytes came to me during a break at the Vienna State Opera” – Don Lorenzo aka Preda
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
“The idea to call the newly discovered cells telocytes came to me during a break at the Vienna State Opera” – Don Lorenzo aka Preda
Schneider Shorts 27.01.2023 – Michigan professor out after fraud findings, Elsevier’s recruits Vietnam’s most-cited scholar as EiC, much-retracted gynecologist from Egypt loses PhD in Netherlands, anti-aging goes to the dogs, how to get fit, and finally, how an intrepid journal hunts the biggest research fraudster in science’s history.
“I am Jorge de Burgos. I believe research should pause in searching for the progress of knowledge. Right now, we don’t need more papers, we rather need more knowledge by going through a continuous and sublime recapitulation to figure out what is true and what is fake” – Aneurus Inconstans
Schneider Shorts 23.12.2022 – the Christmas spirits bring us a baby saved by stem cell magic in England, a mysterious sexual harasser in Germany, fake French nanotechnology, illustrative figures and stolen identities in USA, a cure for both COVID-19 and cancer, and finally, a bunch of academic racists paid by a Nazi fund.
Everyone is talking about Stanford’s President Marc Tessier-Lavigne now. OK, let’s talk about him, and how Stanford deals with research fraud. And then let’s talk about Thomas Rando.
“This phenomenon is called “fraud with Photoshop”, dear Dr Wei.” – Aneurus Inconstans
“As pioneers in the field of regenerative medical therapies, we at Direct Biologics are changing the future of medicine.”
Former star of German regenerative medicine Heike Walles gets slapped with research misconduct and a retraction by her former employer, the University of Würzburg. She and her husband, the Macchiarini-trained surgeon Thorsten Walles, left Würzburg years ago for Magdeburg where nobody minds.
Schneider Shorts 13.05.2022 – three long shorts about various biomedical professors with very little ethics but with a lot of love for money, one long short about russia’s “bioweapon” Big Lie now including antivaxxery and antisemitism, and finally, some music!
“Prof. Dr. Dr. Dr. M. K. Stehling, the founder of ANOVA IRM and the Vitus Prostate Center , is a radiologist (MD) and holds a PhD in physics. […] ANOVA IRM GmbH, located in Offenbach, near Frankfurt am Main, Germany, is an officially controlled German medical company. We have permits to harvest, process and manufacture stem cell products”







