
Wendy Addison
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Wendy Addison
@beyondfreefall
1st South African Whistleblower, the only Whistleblower worldwide to secure jail sentences for wrongdoers, Speaker-Advocate+Trainer #Courageousconversations












Do you know what 'second level whistleblowing' is? Read my LinkedIn post below and watch the documentary @WhistleblowingInc, out today and supported by @LDNstandard Shout out to @jammotionpic for helping us defend the truth #whistleblowing #whistleblowers








🚨 BREAKING: PUBPEER RIGGED BY BRANDON STELL — A 4-YEAR-OLD PRAISE COMMENT FOR BIK’S FLAWED PAPER GETS RESTORED WHILE EXPERT EXPRESSION-OF-CONCERN-LEVEL CRITIQUES GET CENSORED AND ERASED 🚨 Previously, we exposed how PubPeer (aka PubSmear) systematically censors critical comments targeting papers by Elisabeth M. Bik — the fake “science integrity consultant” — and her inner circle. 🎥 Watch the full 9-minute exposure video with screenshots, DOIs, and ironclad receipts (attached to this post). Now, two documented cases fully expose PubPeer co-founder Brandon Stell (@CNRS)’s scale of compromise and fraud — actively rigging the platform to protect Elisabeth Bik’s flawed papers by removing an expert Expression-of-Concern-level critique on one paper (posted & publicly published on 23 November 2024) after 10 days of public visibility on 3 December 2024, while secretly restoring a previously removed praise comment from May 2021 on a different paper after nearly 4 years in January 2025. 📌 CASE 1: Frontiers in Microbiology (2019) “Reduced Gut Microbiome Diversity and Metabolome Differences in Rhinoceros Species at Risk for Iron Overload Disorder” DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.02291 | PubMed: 31649637 An expert submitted a detailed methodological critique on 23 Nov 2024, documenting major scientific weaknesses including: ❌ Extremely small and imbalanced sample sizes ❌ Severe facility and diet confounding ❌ Reduced taxonomic resolution in key species ❌ Single-time-point sampling ❌ Relaxed statistical thresholds inflating false positives ❌ Speculative mechanistic conclusions unsupported by correlative data ❌ Low statistical power and major reproducibility concerns Taken together, the documented flaws meet standard criteria for an EXPRESSION OF CONCERN. But here is where the story becomes revealing. Unlike other cases where critiques were blocked immediately, this expert comment was ACCEPTED and PUBLISHED publicly on PubPeer the very same day. The criticism remained publicly visible for exactly 10 days. Then, on 3 Dec 2024: ❌ The comment disappeared. ❌ The critique was censored and removed from public view. This sequence is particularly important because it demonstrates that the critique initially passed moderation and was considered publishable — only to later vanish after public visibility. That raises a critical question: What changed during those 10 days? The pattern is becoming impossible to ignore: 🔻 Severe expert critiques targeting Bik-linked papers → eventually erased or suppressed Screenshots and timestamps document the publication, visibility period, and subsequent removal step-by-step. #ElisabethBik #BrandonStell #PubPeerScandal #PubSmear #Breaking #News #ScienceFraud #ScienceHypocrisy #ImageForensics @SciGuardians 🔱 🧵 1/2 @SecKennedy @SenRonJohnson @DrJBhattacharya @HHS_ORI @NIH @C0PE @UKRIO @Clarivate @ClarivateAG @timeshighered @ElsevierConnect @Scopus @SpringerNature @WeAreTandF @tandfonline @WileyGlobal @PLOS @ScienceMagazine @TheLancet @Nature @USDAScience @FrontiersIn @AIP_Publishing @CellCellPress @Sage_Publishing @ACSPublications @AmerChemSociety @RoySocChem @theNASciences @APSphysics @ORCID_Org @DOAJplus @CrossrefOrg @aaas @sciam @ChemRxiv @Science_Open @TimKersjes @chrisgrafpub @Einstein_Berlin @WCRIFoundation

















