By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts 21.06.2024 – Nobelist hounded again, retractions for stem cell and superconductor zombies, nine things melatonin does, EMBO being unstoppable, with coffee and cheese, a Declaration of Marseille, an obituary to Chinese virologist, plus proud scamferencers, a German breakthrough in Iran, and finally, what it takes to become associate editor.
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.
Schneider Shorts 17.05.2024 -Britain’s research integrity chair investigates his first big case, Maarten debates Doubting Thomas, Springer retracts whole book, retractions for elites in Harvard and Uppsala, bad science causes cancer from covid, with Elsevier being naughty, Schneider found guilty in Liege, and why you must never open your door to a papermiller.
“The professional bloggers are now trying to turn this into a question of research integrity which is deeply misleading, and claim that they are doing this not for financial gain. Judge for yourself!” – Thomas Südhof, Nobel Prize laureate
Schneider Shorts 19.04.2024 – Nobelist defended by fellow German man, two progeny sons of successful fathers, retractions for various Italian bigwigs, papermill fraud professionally corrected, with a neuroscience breakthrough only few people can master, censorship at a Dutch university, and finally, how to have more sex with Frontiers.
Schneider Shorts 5.04.2024 – angry old Nobelist hounded again, one German professor whitewashed, another told to find new friends, Iranian student in Finland admits buying authorships, Polish vice-rector brings papermilling home, more retractions for Italian ex-rector, and finally, with an obituary to anti-aging researcher.
Schneider Shorts 8.03.2024 – Parkinson’s cured with Photoshop, Wiley abolishes COI policy, clean-up after sacked fraudsters, Bostonian reputations defended, retractions for Macchiarini and other science elites at QMUL, Stanford, Columbia and even for MDPI Jesus, and finally, PNAS special for Women’s Day!
Schneider Shorts of 23.02.2024 – MDPI’s war on Ukraine, naughty Italian editor at Elsevier, Frontiers shocked by cartoon penis, with an attention-seeking Nobelist, a half-investigation in Bochum, Finnish thief and abuser in Denmark, and a fake lizard finally exposed.
Schneider Shorts 9.2.2024 – rector scandal exploding in Germany, Bik finds bizarre fraud in Harvard, Hannover secret divulged, English university sued and sentenced over fraud, Chinese money vs basic ethics, a Nobel correction, and finally, Tiwari’s new scam!
Schneider Shorts 17.11.2023 – a sexual harasser comes to Prague, cover-ups in London and Florence, with a Dutch scam, many retractions, Alzheimer’s infectively uncorked, and finally, another Alzheimer’s superstar exposed as a fraud.
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