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Scientific Reports 2025: A Year in Review
“In this blog I write about papers published by Scientific Reports in 2025, so we could consider it to be a sort of “wrap-up” of highlights and special achievements in the world’s biggest scientific journal™ in 2025.” – Sholto David
Schneider Shorts 2.01.2026 – Insulting all authors rather than the articles
Schneider Shorts 2.01.2026 – a young PhD student in London, a police raid in Madrid, things you can achieve with semaglutide, with Alzheimer’s reversed, Springer Nature taking action, and why you must have chocolate and coffee now.
Schneider Shorts 26.12.2025 – Happy New Year!
Schneider Shorts 26.12.2025 – most read in 2025, an obituary to the man who made the blind see, fake neuroscience, fake biochemistry and fake dermatology, plus how to profit for abusing Black babies, and finally, why you must eat cheese to survive.
Deutsche (Er)Presse Agentur
“a permissible parody cannot be identified in this publicly available photograph” – KSP lawyers, on behalf of dpa
Schneider Shorts 19.12.2025 – Merry Christmas!
Schneider Shorts 19.12.2025- sleuth wins reward in a lawsuit, an Italian cheater can’t stop lying, with retractions for failed and failing science elites, a Nature expert investigation, and US scholars escaping with corrections.
The Lies of Mice
“The closer I looked, the worse it was. Not just because it’s sad to think too much about the poor lives of a laboratory mouse, but also because the researchers who used these mice didn’t have the decency to be truthful about their poor lives. ” – Viola Sheltonii
Schneider Shorts 12.12.2025 – An independent analysis refuting allegations of inappropriate image editing
Schneider Shorts 12.12.2025 – insanity and retractions in Canada, a papermiller in Scotland, an ancient London artwork destroyed, with Belgian geniuses, unusual references, and finally, Elsevier cracks down on papermill fraud.
Professor Grune’s diet of dodgy blots
As German TV asks Tilman Grune what he will eat in the future, I have other questions for him.
Schneider Shorts 5.12.2025 – I write poetry and fiction
Schneider Shorts 5.12.2025 – a young genius in Oxford, a Greek tobacco shill, a Spanish papermiller, retractions for important men and women, including a retracted retraction, glyphosate paper finally gone, and why papermills invent fake Ukrainians
Blame Your Students
“I should have checked these images more closely, but they were intended to be representative images rather than duplications or forgeries of other images.” – Crishan Samuel
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