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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

United Kingdom Katılım Mayıs 2011
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Artur Nadolny
Artur Nadolny@ArturNadol7566·
WHISTLEBLOWER CHARITY CAUGHT IGNORING WHISTLEBLOWERS. TURNS OUT IT'S ABOUT THE MONEY. A documentary just dropped that lays out one of the most cynical operations I have seen in the whistleblowing space. WhistleblowersUK (@WB_UK), run by CEO Georgina Halford Hall and former Conservative MP Jo Gideon (@jogideon), presents itself as the leading force reforming UK whistleblowing law. Their big idea is an Office of the Whistleblower, modelled on the American bounty system, which would give them the power to decide who qualifies as a whistleblower, what fines companies pay, and how much individuals receive. Millions of pounds potentially at stake. Here is what the documentary @WBINC_Doc actually found. 62 people contacted WBUK for help. Low-paid workers were ignored entirely. Higher-paid individuals were contacted back and asked to sign contracts and pay fees. An employment judge criticised WBUK for offering unregulated legal services. Internal messages show Halford Hall telling a whistleblower raising child abuse concerns that her time costs money and she had none to spare. Their parliamentary influence runs through an All Party Parliamentary Group on Whistleblowing, for which WBUK acts as secretariat. APPG secretariats are not required to declare their funding. The documentary raises credible evidence that American law firms specialising in whistleblowing bounty cases have been funding WBUK's push to reshape UK law. Sir Norman Lamb (@normanlamb) resigned as joint chair specifically because he could not get answers about who was paying for what. WBUK then made Christristen Ager Hansen a whistleblowing ambassador and brought him into Parliament events. He was a fugitive in the UK avoiding a prison sentence at the time. A Norwegian court had already ruled his whistleblowing reports were entirely fabricated to serve his own interests. Swedish authorities raided his hotel room and seized his watches over unpaid court costs. WBUK championed him anyway. I have covered Eileen Chubb of Compassion in Care (@CompassnInCare) twice already in this series, the BUPA Seven and the CQC disclosing 47 whistleblowers to their employers. She has been right about every single institution she has taken on. She is right about this one too. Parliament is being lobbied to reshape UK law by an organisation that told a child abuse whistleblower it was too busy to talk. Watch the documentary: link in comments Support for real whistleblowers Sources: Whistleblower Inc @WBINC_Doc documentary, May 2026 | Compassion in Care @CompassnInCare | Norman Lamb @normanlamb statement on APPG resignation ---- @sharmilaxx @SueAllison809 @CartlandDavid @MLorrM @G8GWS @ianfoxley @ClareCraigPath @JohnCleese @TransparencyTF @nw_nicholas
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Accountability Now
Accountability Now@Accountnow_SA·
Whether Ramaphosa’s proposed review of the Ngcobo panel’s findings against him has any prospect of success, or is simply a stalling tactic, remains an open question, says @PaulHoffmanSC. Interesting times ahead for South Africa’s national leadership. More below: accountabilitynow.org.za/whats-next-on-…
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Whistleblower INC
Whistleblower INC@WBINC_Doc·
Whistleblower INC premieres in 15 minutes! We sincerely hope today marks a turning point in the debate and that this film gives a voice to those who have been tirelessly campaigning against the Office of the Whistleblower Bill and have tried to raise concerns about those pushing it over a number of years. How any politician could listen to even a fraction of the evidence we did during the making of this film and choose to ignore it, is absolutely incomprehensible. We would like to thank all of those who made this film possible, and the incredibly brave whistleblowers for sharing their stories on screen. youtube.com/watch?v=oxZEa7…
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Whistleblower INC
Whistleblower INC@WBINC_Doc·
Sir Norman Lamb resigned from the APPG on whistleblowing after WhistleblowersUK refused to answer his questions about their funding. The BBC have described APPGs as "the source of the next Westminster lobbying scandal" youtu.be/oxZEa7IgeMU
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Pengu
Pengu@Penguxn·
if you think uncomfortable conversations are hard wait until you see the results of not having them
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blue@bluewmist·
People who grew up really poor: what's something middle-class people say that instantly reveals they've never struggled?
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Libertario 🟨⬛
Libertario 🟨⬛@QuotesforGoal·
"Cuando exponer un delito es tratado como cometer un delito, estás siendo gobernado por delincuentes" Edward Snowden
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ScienceGuardians
ScienceGuardians@SciGuardians·
🚨 THE REAL REASON SCIENCE IS DYING: "INTEGRITY" GUARDIANS ARE THE BIGGEST FRAUDS While scientific misconduct, predatory journals, paper mills, predatory conferences, and exploitative publishing practices have exploded over the past decade, a huge portion of the academic community has sunk into deep disempowerment and silence. This is not a coincidence. The legitimate question is: Why? The answer is simple and devastating — the very mechanisms and platforms that were supposed to empower researchers to fight fraud have themselves been captured, compromised, and weaponized. Case in point: In 2024, the Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research (@Einstein_Berlin) was handed out — with zero real investigation or due diligence — at both institutional and individual levels. It was awarded to Brandon Stell (@CNRS), co-founder of the fraudulent PubPeer (aka PubSmear) platform, and to Elisabeth M. Bik, the self-proclaimed “science integrity consultant”. ScienceGuardians™ Legal and Investigative Team has exposed with undeniable evidence how Stell, Bik, and their PubSmear network mob are running one of the most sophisticated fraud operations in academia: operating hundreds of fake aliases controlled by ~30 core actors with moderator-level access, posting tens of thousands of entries, blanket-censoring retraction-level and Expression-of-Concern-level critiques on their own papers, manipulating records, pressuring journals and institutions into buying their “dashboards”, running fake WeChat accounts to harass Chinese academics, and orchestrating coordinated smear, defamation, and harassment campaigns — all while hiding behind the false banner of “research integrity”. And that’s only the tip of the iceberg. This is not oversight. This is systemic corruption. ⚠️ The award that was meant to celebrate integrity was instead given to the very actors destroying it. There are far deeper layers of corruption behind how this award was actually given — and we will expose them soon. Stay tuned. #PubPeerScandal #EinsteinAward #ScienceFraud #BrandonStell #ElisabethBik #PubSmear @SciGuardians 🔱 ScienceGuardians™ exists to expose corruption, empower researchers, and restore real integrity in science.
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🚨 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

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Sowell Economics
Sowell Economics@sowelleconomics·
When Zimbabwe got liberated and Mugabe took over, people were promised "free stuff" and "equality". [WATCH TILL THE END, the lady in the white blazer was right]
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Mamane Gondwana
Mamane Gondwana@mamaneshow·
"Se débarrasser des archives papier et les remplacer par des archives numériques leur permet de supprimer l’histoire. Un jour, vous trouverez le message « la page n’existe pas », et le lendemain, vous les verrez nier que cela ait réellement eu lieu". Julian Assange
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𝕷𝖚𝖈𝖎𝖋𝖊𝖗
𝕷𝖚𝖈𝖎𝖋𝖊𝖗@LucifersTweetz·
It’s a pretty horrible time to be alive if you have morals and a conscience.
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Niels Ladefoged
Niels Ladefoged@Niels_Ladefoged·
“If you got no enforcement of regulation, you got no regulation” Martin Woods, Wachovia bank whistleblower on crime and fraud prevention at the @frontlineclub
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Niels Ladefoged@Niels_Ladefoged·
“One’s a few managers or bosses are held criminally liable in a criminal court - that will be a deterrent in itself and this is what we need to move towards” Christine England @Whistler_News and @CompassnInCare on whistleblower protections in the UK.
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Wendy Addison
Wendy Addison@beyondfreefall·
My hope is that this documentary — Whistleblowers Inc + the conversations it will spark will help us arrive at a shared acknowledgement that the current #whistleblowing system is not working as it should.
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Accountability Now
Accountability Now@Accountnow_SA·
The ConCourt has now ruled. Ramaphosa says he's not resigning. So where does that leave South Africa? @PaulHoffmanSC joined Radio Al Ansaar to make sense of a moment that could define the presidency. A thread below. 🧵
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Leisha
Leisha@LoneStarChica·
💔 LAST PUPPY LEFT BEHIND 💔 Bartholomew has spent his entire life growing up in the puppy room at The City of Mobile Animal Services. One by one, he watched all of his siblings leave for loving homes… and now he’s the only one left. 😢 At just 3 months old, this sweet boy has never known what it feels like to have a family of his own, a cozy bed, or someone waiting for him at home. He shouldn’t have to grow up alone in a shelter. Bartholomew is only 20 lbs, incredibly loving, and adores being around people. He’s also great with dogs, cats, and everyone he meets. 🐾❤️ Please help the shelter find this precious boy the forever home he deserves before he has to spend another day by himself. 📞 Call the shelter at 251-208-2800 to adopt Bartholomew today!
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