Complotiste et Rassuriste

📌🚨 More on the echo-chamber tactics of PubPeer "PubSmear" Network Mob and its perpetrators: “The majority of PubPeer accusation against our lab are made by four commentators, Dr. Elisabeth Bik, Dr. Maarten van Kampen (pseudonym Orchestus quercus), Patrick Kevin (pseudonym Actinopolyspora biskrensis), and Dr. Kaveh Bazargan (pseudonym Illex illecebrosus). Our lab’s main accusers often operate like a tag team creating an echo chamber. Dr. Bik usually first makes an accusation and the others then repeat the allegation from various angles.” — @NobelPrize Laureate @Stanford Professor Thomas C. Südhof Lab official statement 🔱 We have already exposed the most active PubPeer “PubSmear” Network Mob perpetrators — operating highly conflicted commercial companies deeply embedded in the integrity/publishing ecosystem they police: • Elisabeth M. Bik (the fake “science integrity consultant”) operates via Harbers Bik LLC — her vehicle for paid consulting, expert reports, and forensic image analysis for journals, universities, and litigants. She also runs a Patreon and had prior roles at uBiome (later hit with fraud charges) and Astarte Medical. Her income is directly tied to the misconduct-hunting industry she helps drive. • Kaveh Bazargan (aka Illex illecebrosus on the compromised PubPeer) runs River Valley Technologies (@RiverValley1000), a company selling peer-review platforms, open-science tools, and — crucially — research integrity dashboards and image-sleuthing features to publishers and institutions. • Patrick Starke (CEO & Co-Founder) and Markus Zlabinger (CTO & Co-Founder) run ImageTwin (@ImageTwinAI) the AI-powered image analysis tool widely used for detecting duplications, manipulations, and integrity issues in scientific figures. • Kevin Patrick (aka Actinopolyspora biskrensis on the compromised PubPeer) — a financial advisor with ZERO academic or scientific credentials, yet responsible for a massive volume of PubPeer “PubSmear” entries. He leads and coordinates public and private pressure on journals and publishers to purchase the PubPeer Journal and Institution Dashboards. (See evidentiary exposé: x.com/SciGuardians/s…) These fraudulent actors and commercial companies have documented interactions defending each other on the compromised PubPeer, while thousands of other papers (often older ones where original data is long gone) face aggressive “image manipulation” claims that lead to retractions. ⚠️ They cash out from their commercial operations under the guise of “research integrity,” while eroding public trust in science through selective enforcement and asymmetric scrutiny.

@Marc_Doyer