Russia on their minds
Meet some western academic elites who just love russia!
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Meet some western academic elites who just love russia!
“Russia can be defeated; Russia has been defeated before. The question is not one of possibility, but of political will.” – Franziska Davies
“On one side: late-career scientists resorting to purchased promotion of their early-career papers. On the other side: whole new genres of paper-shaped artifacts that are little more than packaging for ever-larger citation cargoes, and papermillers no longer bothering to find buyers for naming rights on their products.” – Smut Clyde
Once again, two dictators prepare to divide Europe.
Schneider Shorts 25.10.2024 – successful papermilling in Canada and Germany, less successful papermilling in Spain and Ukraine, an open letter to Springer, UK Biobank letting bad guys in, with a dead psychologist, a Spanish cancer warrior in France, an evaporated water institute, haggling Vietnamese, and finally, why coffee and alcohol are good news.
“I never agreed to collaborate with this organization. END OF STORY!” – Sir J Fraser Stoddart
“I do not know what your business is, and I find the email below highly offensive.” – Morten Meldal
a biotech fraudster indicted, a Swedish rector can’t stop papermilling, Oncotarget’s chief editor maliciously targeted, PLOS afraid of Italians but not of French, polluted journal cleaned up, a Texan paper falls, and finally, Chinese robots with minibrains ready to attack!
This war should have ended long ago, if only Ukraine received enough support. But the fascists in our midst are winning. We must fight fascism at home.
French nanotechnologists Sabine Szunerits and Rabah Boukherroub put EU Commission’s money to good use. The EU cannot afford a papermill gap to Iran and China!
Schneider Shorts 10.11.2023: Italy Special – Milanese bully’s Golden Girls, real data alla Parmigiana, special care for Italian EMBO members, retractions in Rome and Messina, plus other retractions from Argentina, USA and Ukraine, and finally, a Nigerian scammer with a name you won’t forget!







