By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts 14.08.2026 - man let down by two young women in Australia, two bullying divas set up a lab in the Swiss Alps, Chinese papermill issues purity certificate to Portuguese customer, with a German lion of the world being hunted, an Iranian genius welcomed all over Europe, and finally, where Retraction Watch went wrong again.
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Schneider Shorts 7.08.2026 - a tech bro cleans oceans, a climate expert suggests animal sacrifice, a creepy American crook still trying to cheat, Italian role models lose papers, Danish ecologist fails to cure cancer, and a Pole threatening punishment gets punished.
“Mariana will tell your wife things that she does not want to hear. Believe when I tell you that it is not a good idea to play games with Mariana. [...] you will have to pay the consequences for your stupid decisions” - Professor Kazanietz, to a lab member
Schneider Shorts 31.07.2026 - trans children abused in Norway, a racist supported in Belgium, a mega-cheater rules English universities, a questionable female role model awarded in USA, with an ill-informed version of how Sage retractions happened, cures for cancer and autism, and finally, you'll never believe the real reason why fruit and veg are good for you!
"What do science and “true love” have in common? Both are infatuated by passion, but if trust is lost, it is almost impossible to go back.” - Bernhard Sabel
Schneider Shorts 24.07.2026 - proper channels at work in Austria, Science self-correcting, tobacco shills and papermillers in charge of food security, with husband and wife torturing mice, important men losing papers, many other papermill retractions, and tips on how to deal with PubPeer moderation!
"Once again I am left wondering what to make of these research teams that cheerfully go on generating impossible results, either they don't write the methods truthfully or they don't write the results truthfully and neither one is better than the other." - Sholto David
Schneider Shorts 17.07.2026 - a serial rapist at Charite Berlin could still graduate, an Italian scholar who hates snitches, two science guardians finding each other, with the first retraction for German professors and several Polish scholars losing papers, including from an entirely retracted MDPI special issue.
Schneider Shorts 10.07.2026 - a bullying diva whitewashed in a Swiss travesty, the importance of AI for science, plus retractions for a legendary Italian fraudster in USA and scholars in New Zealand and Romania.