Cheshire reviews “Are We the Next Endangered Species? Bioweapons, Eugenics, and More” by Richard Fleming

Schneider Shorts 2.08.2024 – Two British stem cell biotechs in trouble, a baldness cure found in Pakistan, papermill clean-up in Vietnam and Thailand, a guide on finding papermill experts, Ko…

“I was asked to pay in bitcoin to avoid retraction”. – Zbigniew Leonowicz

“These skeezy fraud-friendly journals do have their uses. Once a papermill finds them, the fakes are concentrated in one place, undiluted by genuine research results, allowing a clear picture…

Schneider Shorts 9.08.2024 – Polish rector extorts journalists for money as yet another papermiller is installed, how to look like an Israeli Scientist, sleuth’s boss accused of fraud, …

“Here we see a somewhat phallic balloon-like structure which has presumably collapsed under low pressure. A “proboscis” is seen emerging from the left of the main cell which has two, nostril-…

Schneider Shorts 16.09.2024 – superconductor data released, old American alpha males in trouble, a theory why CureVac failed, a resigned Polish papermiller’s lament, with a remote-paper…

“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…

Schneider Shorts 23.08.2024 – why an mpox drug failed, Slovak professor’s dirty secret, Italian alpha male’s second retraction, Kazakh-Hungarian collaboration spammed, with confus…

Mu Yang catches two crooks, Ayman Atta and S Muthu, who flooded one Elsevier journal (and several others) with ridiculous hand-drawn fraud. Whom to believe, the peer review, or your own eyes?

Thomas Südhof, victim of racist and sexist persecution, announced to retract a second paper, “even though the quantitative analyses and conclusions are correct”.

Schneider Shorts 30.08.2024 – lawyers advise universities about PubPeer, a spoiled brat in Liverpool gets a new toy, an Italian role model gets her first retractions, low standards in Clevela…

“There are no capital requirements or significant technological barriers, anyone can create papers by rewriting already published works, either themselves or with the assistance of ChatGPT or…

“As you will see, there is a lot of papermilling happening in Gliwice, as if this place has suddenly become attractive to many “researchers” from different corners of the papermil…

Schneider Shorts 6.09.2024 – Bochum professor sues me for scamferencer’s honour, For Better Science banned in Italy, Czech cheater vindicated, Irish cheater protected, Dana Farber CEO r…

“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 offensi…

“I have no idea what is happening here, but fortunately it is not my job to adjudicate questions of who stole what from whom.” – Smut Clyde

Schneider Shorts 13.09.2024 – obituary for an editor, new Swiss rules for authorship, Top Italian Scientist illicitly loses her first paper, an innocent Spanish rector faces retractions, dish…

“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…

“Imagine what effect might ensue from a young donor body (say, in her 20’s) nourishing with her young blood 24/24, 7/7 the head of an aging body recipient!” – Sergio Canavero