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Tangentially relevant to AI safety as unreliable scientific literature affects training data quality and benchmark integrity; primarily a biomedical misconduct watchdog blog with limited direct AI safety content.
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For Better Science is an investigative blog by Leonid Schneider that exposes scientific misconduct, data fraud, paper mills, and integrity failures across biomedical and life sciences research. It critically examines problematic publications, institutional cover-ups, and the broader replication crisis. The site serves as a watchdog resource for accountability in academic publishing.
Key Points
- •Investigates and documents specific cases of data manipulation, image fraud, and fabricated research in peer-reviewed journals
- •Covers the paper mill phenomenon, where fake or low-quality papers are mass-produced and sold for authorship
- •Critiques institutional failures by universities, journals, and funding bodies to address misconduct
- •Provides detailed case studies useful for understanding how scientific integrity failures propagate
- •Relevant to AI safety discussions around reliability of scientific literature used in training and evaluation
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For Better Science – By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
by Leonid Schneider
May 26, 2021
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by Leonid Schneider
June 29, 2020
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March 26, 2020
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January 24, 2020
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December 17, 2019
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June 26, 2018
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Latest Posts
by smut.clyde
April 7, 2026
1
“Mahendrakumar Trivedi does not need a Potion to make you fatter and more delicious; his psychic emanations are enough.”- Smut Clyde
by Leonid Schneider
April 3, 2026
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Schneider Shorts 3.04.2026 – a sexual harasser sacked in Singapore, BMJ completes a rescue mission, how to honour dead friends, with bad liver research in New York, , a victim of ghosting, unaffected conclusions despite irreproducible results, and finally, you won’t believe that AI slop in Elsevier.
by Corrado Viotti
March 31, 2026
6
“I have filtered out several hundreds biomedical research articles from Brown containing the words “western blot” in the text, and found out the usual, unavoidable ocean of manipulated data.” – Corrado Viotti
by Leonid Schneider
March 27, 2026
5
Schneider Shorts 27.03.2026 – degenerative medicine special with London crooks and Californian lunatics, with retractions for mouse torture, concerns for one man’s cancer business, and a Texan Nobelist and his bullying wife.
by Sholto David
March 24, 2026
2
“A coordinated review of the cited publications and underlying data is currently underway” – Hiroki Kuniyasu
by Leonid Schneider
March 20, 2026
14
Schneider Shorts 20.03.2026 – a mysterious German “professor” accused of horrible sex crimes but defended by German justice, an American antivaxxer wants a cancer society locked up, an Italian university pretends to investigate its papermillers, and finally, how an Australian tech bro cured his dog’s cancer with ChatGPT.
by Leonid Schneider
March 17, 2026
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It’s time to write about IFOM-IEO again.
by Leonid Schneider
March 13, 2026
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Schneider Shorts 13.03.2026 – German university welcomes the real victims of war, bad dentistry
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