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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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Summary

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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 May 26, 2021 
 

 
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 by smut.clyde 
 April 7, 2026 
 
 
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 “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 
 
 
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 “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 
 
 
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 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 
 
 
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 “A coordinated review of the cited publications and underlying data is currently underway” – Hiroki Kuniyasu

 
 
 

 

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 by Leonid Schneider 
 March 20, 2026 
 
 
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 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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