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“Given Jost Jonas’ high productivity and his German origin, could it be that he somehow profits from helping Asian institutions with boosting their publication metrics?” – A…| For Better Science
“Given Jost Jonas’ high productivity and his German origin, could it be that he somehow profits from helping Asian institutions with boosting their publication metrics?” – A…| For Better Science
8 posts published by Leonid Schneider, Archasia Belfragei, and Aneurus during October 2025| For Better Science
Schneider Shorts 24.10.2025 – minibrained autism quacks poison Neanderthals!, two sleuths expose massive FDA fail, journalists reveal secret investigation in Canada, California fraudster gets…| For Better Science
10 posts published by Archasia Belfragei, Leonid Schneider, and Sholto David during September 2025| For Better Science
Germans are traditionally fascinated with Italy. Like Goethe before him, Fabian Wittmers is no exception, so please enjoy our tripContinue Reading| For Better Science
Schneider Shorts 17.10.2025 - epigenetic inheritance in Communist ideology, Alzheimer's cured with nanoparticles, two Swedish scientists curing cancer, with publishers fighting trash correlation studies, retractions for former Nobelium professor, and finally, how to use proper channels.| For Better Science
Nobel Prize laureates and predatory conferences - why such mutual attraction?| For Better Science
Schneider Shorts 10.10.2025 - - how Nobel Magic works, a German Nobelist investigates again, a Polish professor out of the job, a wise fellow in Sweden, a cunning move from Denmark, with various retractions in Heliyon, Wiley behaving funny, and finally, with a scamference heir suing Canadian university.| For Better Science
"Science is an activity based on uncertainty. [...] Methodological errors [...] cannot be treated as crimes. The risk is criminalizing scientific practice itself, inhibiting innovation and creativity." - Helena B. Nader, President| For Better Science
Schneider Shorts 3.10.2025 - Epstein and his academic friends, a Texas kleptomaniac, German professor innocent again,with an advice for PubPeer community, Scandinavian retractions, and finally, Springer Nature's view on western blotting.| For Better Science
"Forgeries of this calibre make me think anything ever published by Sliwinski, Skorski and their associates is made up. In an ideal world, hundreds of articles by these people showing just tables and graphs should get retracted " - Aneurus Inconstans| For Better Science
"If you need a graphics designer with basic photo shop skills to tune up your data, they might be the right team for the job!" - Fabian Wittmers| For Better Science
As Australia’s top neuroscientist Matthew Kiernan sacks people, questions arise: are his drawings still science or already art?| For Better Science
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing| For Better Science
Posts about Sholto David written by Sholto David| For Better Science
Posts about paper mills written by Leonid Schneider, smut.clyde, magazinovalex, Sholto David, and CandidCat| For Better Science
Posts about Fabian Wittmers written by Archasia Belfragei and Sholto David| For Better Science
” I can’t even begin to imagine the psychological damage of joining a lab as a new postgrad student and having people like Ryan F. Donelly as your supervisor and Andi as the postdoc, it…| For Better Science
“I have been following the comments on PubPeer, and have been shocked, angered and appalled by the issues […] there can be no explanation for this other than systemic fraud “- Pro…| For Better Science
“if you can solve a captcha you should be able to identify fabricated comet assay images. If you can’t, you can absolutely sit this one out, Springer Nature probably has a job for you i…| For Better Science
“An attractive new prospect: Install the Chinese paper mill directly at Yale University, where research oversight is presumably less stringent than at the PRC and NIH funds are more easily ac…| For Better Science
“Do Cohen’s colleagues and superiors know or care that he hosts wizards in his lab? Or perhaps this is simply common place, wizards roam throughout MD Anderson free range, blasting the …| For Better Science
“Stupid people do stupid things, After all it was an Egyptian who once told me: “10% editing is acceptable as long as we didn’t modify the significant ” – Sholto David| For Better Science
Schneider Shorts 19.09.2025 – Schneider reported to German police, authorship disputes resolved in Switzerland, honesty researcher sued for double-fraud, a Romanian honoured by learned societ…| For Better Science
“If we can target necrosis, we could unlock entirely new ways to treat conditions ranging from kidney failure to cardiac disease, neurodegeneration, and even aging itself.” – Dr Carina …| For Better Science
Will Vilhelm win a Nobel Prize of his own? And for what?| For Better Science
5 posts published by Leonid Schneider, Aneurus, and Sholto David during August 2025| For Better Science
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, s…| For Better Science
10 posts published by Leonid Schneider, Sholto David, smut.clyde, and M. van Kampen during April 2024| For Better Science
10 posts published by Sholto David, Leonid Schneider, CandidCat, Archasia Belfragei, and smut.clyde during April 2025| For Better Science
“David Geier is the ideal fit to the purposes of RFK Jr. For the only reliably loyal underlings are incompetent ones who know they have no future anywhere else. ” – Smut Clyde| For Better Science
“”A number of leading researchers have published their research contributions at this Journal among them Zhanhu Guo, Zhanhu Guo, Zhanhu Guo,….”| For Better Science
“Expressions of Concern may be used as an interim notice to flag a potential issue that may be ultimately resolved with another amendment outcome (e.g. retraction or correction) or they may r…| For Better Science
Schneider Shorts 7.03.2025 – Royal Society salutes Nazi oligarch, Belgian university uses poverty excuse, Chinese surgeons cure Alzheimer’s, with an untrustworthy Italian biotech, a rev…| For Better Science
“Since Journal of Ethnopharmacology sees no reason to reject bear bile powder research like other scientific journals, that means you can expect to see anything there” – Parashore…| For Better Science
“One of the UK research system’s strengths is having established processes that allow for this review so that we maintain an accurate and robust research record. Promoting and improving this …| For Better Science
Schneider Shorts 28.02.2025 – what Scottish professor and Italian MP have in common, a Croatian genius and his friends, a US inventor with sponge and teabag, with Elsevier afraid of a stalker…| For Better Science
Schneider Shorts 21.02.2025 – Germany special with my plea to German voters, a russia-lover in Hamburg, an animal friend in Magdeburg, a decisive art historian in Cottbus, and an Iran-loving …| For Better Science
Schneider Shorts 14.02.2025 – the Matthew Effect in Nobel retractions, Cambridge approves of papermilling, France rewards cheatery, with Karen and her mice, fake miRNA research in Canada, and…| For Better Science
Schneider Shorts 17.01.2025 – Ex-rector acquitted in Germany, YouTube couple guilty of fraud in Sweden, papermiller kicked out in Poland, with a whodunit retraction, retractions for papermill…| For Better Science
Schneider Shorts 10.01.2024 – the most influential person in Polish medicine, breaking bad news to Germany’s star oncologist, with Egyptian cheaters, artistic achievements, a COPE inves…| For Better Science
Posts about Schneider Shorts written by Leonid Schneider| For Better Science
Schneider Shorts 29.11.2024 – an Alzheimer’s biotech in free fall, an Israeli Scientist explains the unexplainable, a German fraudster indicted, with a butterfly bully, good fellows and…| For Better Science
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, wit…| For Better Science
Schneider Shorts 22.11.2024 – a witch-hunter’s obituary, a Nobelist awarded and awarding, a dirty old man protected in Marseille, mTORman funded in Czechia, a Polish mayor arrested, a s…| For Better Science
Schneider Shorts 15.11.2024 – trouble in elite Canadian lab, leadership chaos at IEEE, cancer charity money put to good use in Italy, one Elsevier journal untouchable, another cleaned from pa…| For Better Science
“I woke up seeing Elsevier’s giant middle finger in front of my face.” – Mu Yang| For Better Science
Posts about University Affairs written by Leonid Schneider| For Better Science
Posts about Research integrity written by Leonid Schneider, Sholto David, and Mu Yang| For Better Science
Posts about Academic Publishing written by Leonid Schneider, Mu Yang, nickhwise, and smut.clyde| For Better Science
“My former and current lab members can attest that I have lectured the importance of scientific rigor and image rigor in our meetings several times each year.” – Andrew Z Wang| For Better Science
“The mice probably wouldn’t care whether the experiment they suffered and died for was meaningful or not, but it does seem to matter to me. “- Sholto David| For Better Science
“Imagine what mistakes might be found in the raw data if anyone was allowed to look!” – Sholto David| For Better Science
“The President’s goal of ending cancer as we know it today is grounded, in part, in the work of scientific discovery that Ned Sharpless has led at NCI”| For Better Science
“Why do successful and apparently intelligent surgeons feel the need to play pretend at biology research? Has Sam S. Yoon ever performed an invasion or migration assay? […] if this is h…| For Better Science
“What exactly will Lash and Elsevier do with these 115 problematic papers? I can only expect a painfully inadequate response.” – Sholto David| For Better Science
“One could argue that the Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences itself represents a “severe abuse of the scientific publishing system”. However, with the support of two of the world’s wo…| For Better Science
Sholto David brings you a new true crime story. This time featuring two twisted orthopaedics professors from the University of Miami! Will they end up in Sholto’s science jail for their fake …| For Better Science
“The only difficult part might be deciding whether Ken has been intentionally deceptive or wildly incompetent, although the difference in practice doesn’t seem so important.” R…| For Better Science
“No paper — I would wager quite heavily that a large percentage, probably over 90% of papers in the public domain, have errors in them. Whether or not they be known, I would suggest th…| For Better Science
This is a guest post by two whistleblowers from the Palacky University in Olomouc. In the centre of the growing research misconduct and retaliation scandal: the nanotechnology professor Radek Zbori…| For Better Science
“the professor insults her doctoral students, calling them “stupid”, “useless” or “retarded”, for example. She is said to sometimes require her employees to work more than 80 hours a week. Th…| For Better Science
Posts about Antonia Joussen written by Leonid Schneider| For Better Science
Independent Science Journalist and Cartoonist. Formerly molecular cell biologist. My academic CV at: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6204-9470| For Better Science
“The Investigative Committee notes that the infractions to normal scientific conduct surveyed in this report were blatant and repeated. Dr. [XY] should be dealt with in a manner consistent to…| For Better Science
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“your scatter gun approach has undermind a process that is undertaken confidentially […] It is sad that you are determined to undermine people’s reputations in the way you do.…| For Better Science
“Every now and again, it is a good idea to open the door of the clown car that is MD Anderson, and see who climbs out. Today is the turn of Kapil N. Bhalla. If you say his name quickly, it so…| For Better Science
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…| For Better Science
Schneider Shorts 12.04.2024 – three Shorts only this time, with a superconductive fraudster who lied about everything, a role model for WomenInSTEM in UK, and a sexual harasser first protecte…| For Better Science
