By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
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.
Schneider Shorts 27.10.2023 – The Real Iron Man in Texas, Swedish researchers escape investigation, with a Heidelberg papermill, a brave whistleblower, concerns expressed and cancer cured, and finally, why FASEB is worse than Asian papermills.
Maarten van Kampen’s second attempt at hounding of Nobel papers.
“Yup we are being hounded.” – Thomas Südhof
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