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Science journalism by Leonid Schneider https://forbetterscience.com/
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People drowned because "Russian military interfered with the work of locals who were evacuating people from the flooded areas on their own"

What a load of bollocks by Loren Mell. But Ivan, had you quoted @smutclyde.bsky.social work on Anthony Mawson & Binu Jacob, you would've had proper arguments. Tee-hee. forbetterscience.com/2018/12/20/f...

'Carbohydrate Polymers' has been infected by a severe case of copy-pasteritis once more: Bai et al. 2023 (DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2023.120693). Figures 3 and 4 are a bit cringe. I have just exceeded 100 papers flagged by me in the journal alone (many more by others). pubpeer.com/publications...

Tragic & funny: I have moved on from problematic figures in articles to flagging "corrections". This figure was published as part of a "correction" to a problem I flagged in July'24: Jalili et al. 2024 in 'Molecular Biology Reports' (DOI: 10.1007/s11033-024-09599-y). pubpeer.com/publications...

A bad day for Nicolas Guéguen as he scores five retractions, including the evolutionary psychology tour de force "Bust Size and Hitchhiking". journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.2...

I repeat: University of Messina = fraud Emanuella Esposito has ~500 papers. Most of them are probably false. doi.org/10.3390/ijms... #Italy #science #research #fraud #Messina #MDPI

A new one to me. Someone offering authorship of a paper in return for posting comments on @pubpeer.com.

My own take: forbetterscience.com/2025/02/24/b...

I have written a new blog. Scientists at MD Anderson have been spending NIH funds on absurd paranormal experiments on mice, trying to cure cancer with magic. Please read and share 🙂 forbetterscience.com/2025/02/26/t...

What are the incentives for such a misconduct? A whole generation of researchers normalised such a behaviour. And it can easily spread across institutions... forbetterscience.com/2023/10/16/c... (my Italian side is highly ashamed)

The Men Who Stare At Mice forbetterscience.com/2025/02/26/t...

We are under arrest!

Russia, Belarus, Eritrea, Nicaragua and....the US. And Israel. All on the losing side

1. Rasmussen posts a lot of rubbish, especially about COVID origins 2. But what is this time her words are true.... forbetterscience.com/2021/10/04/h...

But diplomacy, but elections! – Thoughts on russia’s war on Ukraine forbetterscience.com/2025/02/24/b...

Wählt #Gruen!

If anyone wrote a dystopia story about American fascism with this in it, it would be trashed right away.

Dear German readers, please vote GREEN tomorrow! Only @gruene.de stand for #Ukraine and #climate action.

Maybe this time, stand up for academic freedom, for humanity, for inclusion. Not just for science and its funding, as scientists did during Trump's first rule.

Bosch was in every respect the opposite of Musk, today's idol of industry.

"Nobelium Bilalski, a Gdansk papermiller" Well worth a read | @forbetterscience.bsky.social

New blog posting "The World of Bullshitmore" 21percent.org?p=1535 'For Better Science' deliver an absolute belter of a right hook Cambridge University's Department of Psychiatry is groggy & on the floor Thanks to @forbetterscience.bsky.social

Dear German readers, please vote GREEN tomorrow! Only @gruene.de stand for #Ukraine and #climate action.

Unproven HBO therapy poses serious risks: drpeterwilmshurst.wordpress.com/2025/02/21/r...

Give Trump a second and he will blame Ukrainian bioweapon labs for COVID-19. As russia already did.

"It is possible that Trump has also been convinced, in some larger sense, that Ukraine is simply a vulnerable colonial territory that can be carved up, as in the redivision of a plot of property in a real estate transaction."-- @timothysnyder.bsky.social

Schneider Shorts 21.02.2025 – I reviewed the facts and could not find any scientific misconduct forbetterscience.com/2025/02/21/s...

Springer Nature bans "green economy" because it's fake pseudoscience invented by papermills. Mump regime will approve. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Trump says a Jew stole all the money. And started a war. As Jews did in 1914 according to Hitler.

A story on coercive citations and fake peer review by M. Angeles Oviedo-Garcia👇Publication #fraud happens in so many ways! And many publishers just don't care or don't bother to take action. The sad reality is that nothing much happens to stop the #fraud. forbetterscience.com/2025/02/12/t...

University of Messina = FRAUD New forgeries are constantly being revealed. Here is a new one from Emanuela Esposito. For more information, please see: forbetterscience.com/2023/06/12/u... #Italy #Science #Cancer #Fraud

Good to remember: Plan S, designed to flip scholarly publishing to OA, have been influenced by Frontiers. Leaked emails reveal close consultations between Robert-Jan Smits & Frontiers' CEO, raising questions about the plan's conception & transparency. ☢️ forbetterscience.com/2019/07/11/f...

You failed scientists didn't know that spectra are supposed to be hand-drawn?

Molotov and Ribbentrop about to sign something

Check out this collection of artworks, with some examples provided by yours truly! Some "scientists" would call the 'Journal of Ethnopharmacology' fantastic, but that's because it publishes their fake papers on Traditional Chinese Medicine without question so they can promote their crappy products.

Slipshod Self-service Ethnopharmacology forbetterscience.com/2025/02/18/s...

Musk greatly enjoyed torturing monkeys for his Neuralink. Soon this admired science genius will be able to torture and kill people.

"If this draft were accepted, Trump’s demands would amount to a higher share of Ukrainian GDP than reparations imposed on Germany at the Versailles Treaty" Will Trump next threaten a US invasion of Ukraine if it doesn't surrender to him and putin?

Make Tuskegee great again?

Never insult your critics on PubPeer! Now 32 papers and they are long not done.

It's actually tea leaves, camelia sinensis. Of course drinking tea cures cancer, look!

First they burn books, then they burn people, right?

And does anyone need decoding Musk's Nazi salute?

Mump wants US universities white , will they comply?