Mad School of Brown University
“I have filtered out several hundreds biomedical research articles from Brown containing the words “western blot” in the text, and found out the usual, unavoidable ocean of manipulated data.” – Corrado Viotti
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
“I have filtered out several hundreds biomedical research articles from Brown containing the words “western blot” in the text, and found out the usual, unavoidable ocean of manipulated data.” – Corrado Viotti
Schneider Shorts 20.03.2026 – a mysterious German “professor” accused of horrible sex crimes but defended by German justice, an American antivaxxer wants a cancer society locked up, an Italian university pretends to investigate its papermillers, and finally, how an Australian tech bro cured his dog’s cancer with ChatGPT.
Schneider Shorts 13.03.2026 – German university welcomes the real victims of war, bad dentistry and bad cancer research in Germany (with major input from USA), fraud and patient abuse in Italy, and finally, with two papermillers in Poland – one very successful, another hit by retractions.
Schneider Shorts 13.02.2026 – a Finnish nightmare for a Spanish scholar, a Portuguese Vice-Rector in trouble, a cure for cancer from US government, with a role model for women in German medicine, one champion of research ethics in England and another in Italy, and finally, why you must have a coffee (or a tea) now.
Schneider Shorts 9.01.2026 – PubSmear mob tries to suppress the truth about vaccines, a billionaire rescues a damsel in distress, with a new kind of editorial note, a German-Italian cure for cancer, and with another old English tale of corruption and patient abuse.
Schneider Shorts 1.08.2025 – Norwegian university fights against retractions, obituary to an American giant, Indian retraction leads to cheaters in Wisconsin, with Turkey’s Elon Musk, some amusing corrections, and finally, with a sexually harassed sexual harasser in Spain!
Schneider Shorts 6.06.2025 – one anti-qualified troll to judge all scientists in Italy, another asks Trump for $50 billion, with a celebrated Thai couple, a russian in America, an incredible correction in Frontiers, plus retractions and concerns for some very important people.
Schneider Shorts 25.04.2025 – a Canadian gynaecologist examines himself, a perpetrator trolls a Science Guardian, with Italian retractions, special rules for special people, and finally, do coffee and chocolate belong in the lab?
Schneider Shorts 21.03.2025 – Brazilian Academician who may have second thoughts about awarding PubPeer, what to eat to avoid breast cancer, with Armenian Alzheimer’s vaccines, a litigious fraudster, elusive Belgians, and finally, what German government knew about pandemic origins.
Both Harvey Risch and Wafik El Deiry are perfectly anti-qualified candidates to lead the National Cancer Institute.


