🚨 "The True Freefall of Nature" One of these fraudsters, carefully cultivated and curated under the guise of “research integrity”, is Lonni Besançon — an individual with: • a documented pattern of vulgar, s-e-x-u-a-l-i-z-e-d, and dehumanizing remarks directed at members of the academic community (see the archived evidence in 📸 Images 1 and 2), • publicly recorded threats against scientists to retract their papers (see the archived evidence 📸 Image 3), • proven records of lies, deception, and self-incrimination (see the archived evidence in the first comment). 📌 And who is the compromised editor who has infiltrated one of the most powerful positions in scientific publishing? Meet Jack Leeming — a former builder with experience writing scented candle descriptions, zero editorial training, no lab experience, and no scientific publication record — who somehow rose to become Associate Editor at @Nature, and is now Chief Editor of @NatureCareers. 🚨 THERE IS NO COINCIDENCE. Such a scale of systematic corruption, deception, compromise, and fraud requires years of infiltration, followed by careful cultivation and curation. 🔱 ScienceGuardians™ Legal and Investigative Team exists to ensure these well-concealed processes aimed at cultivating and curating fraudulent actors under the guise of research and science integrity are fully exposed.

🚨 Update: Taylor & Francis Under Notice — Their Response & Our Reply On 18 Sept 2025, Dr. Sabina Alam (Director of Publishing Ethics & Integrity) replied to our formal notice of 8 Sept (also addressed to Laura Wilson, Head of Research Integrity & Ethics). 📌 On 20 Sept 2025, ScienceGuardians™ replied, providing the following archived evidence: • Public exposé & notice (full text): scienceguardians.substack.co… • X thread: x.com/SciGuardians/status/19… • Archive of PubPeer activity (Nick Wise): archive.is/amMQu • Archives revealing use/exposure of fake aliases (examples): archive.is/aGAie & archive.is/P2MJq — revealing that Wise operates under fake aliases. One of these, “Simnia avena,” was exposed by Leonid Schneider, an aggressive online stalker and key PubPeer Network Mob member, who has been self-implicated under EU and German laws for multiple legal crimes and violations (see: x.com/SciGuardians/status/19…). We have also documented extensive collaboration between Nick Wise and Leonid Schneider, further underscoring the conflicts of interest and coordinated activities at play. This archive shows only the tip of the iceberg: articles authored by Wise for the highly derogatory blog operated by Schneider (archive.is/pFF10). It represents just a small fraction of the extensive evidence of collaboration between these two actors, which we have documented and thoroughly archived. • Archive of alias “Simnia avena” activity: archive.is/mItH5 • Archive screenshots of post-appointment activity (examples): archive.is/7VcOy ; archive.is/eI55e ; archive.is/MA0fB ; archive.is/ZZl7T • Archive of collusion with external actors: archive.is/dlWw5 — documenting Nick Wise’s collaboration with an established member of the PubPeer Network Mob, responsible for orchestrating defamation campaigns against senior academics, including Nobel Laureate and Stanford University Professor Thomas C. Südhof, while he simultaneously served as Research Integrity Manager at Taylor & Francis. • Recent evidence of defamatory amplification and intimidation: x.com/SciGuardians/status/19… — documenting threats to retract papers, defamatory attacks, and the unprofessional, inflammatory amplification of these attacks by the institutional arm of the PubPeer Network Mob, Retraction Watch. 🚨⚠️ The suspicious move by Taylor & Francis to issue a warning that the paper is “under investigation” — rather than working in good faith with the authors — constitutes a clear act of intimidation and provocation. This development strengthens our concerns that the publisher’s integrity office has been infiltrated and compromised. ⚖️ Should third parties experience reputational, professional, or financial harm linked to conflicts of interest, collusion, or abuse of insider access by Mr. Wise, liability may extend to Taylor & Francis and to its leadership if this notice is ignored or dismissed without proper investigation. 🔱📢📑 Full exchange now public on @SciGuardians’ Substack account: 👉 scienceguardians.substack.co… @SecKennedy @DrJBhattacharya @AaronSiriSG @RenzTom @laralogan @HHS_ORI @NIH @C0PE @UKRIO @ClarivateAG @timeshighered @ElsevierConnect @SpringerNature @WileyGlobal @PLOS @ScienceMagazine @TheLancet @Nature @USDAScience @FrontiersIn @TimKersjes @chrisgrafpub @EggletonKim @Maria_Kowalczuk @latwec @EllaFlemyng @Phil_Baty @lisalibrarian @cshperspectives @JAByrneSci @cpiller @DoctorZen @LizWhitlockMD @AJEisch @SimonGandevia @HollyElse @Einstein_Berlin @NerdyChristie @MiryamNaddaf @Kate_Travis @armarcus @ivanoransky @DeniseOrdway @hholdenthorp @MeaganPhelan @fenellasaunders @EnagoAcademy @peerrevcongress @WCRIFoundation

🚨 FOLLOW-UP: The PubPeer Network Mob — Inside the Mechanism of a Coordinated Academic Smear Operation 🚨 In our previous exposé, we revealed how the PubPeer platform has been manipulated to serve a coordinated network engaged in years of academic harassment. Today, we unveil the core mechanism of this operation—its key players, tools, and multi-stage strategy used to fabricate misconduct, intimidate scientists, and distort academic discourse (see 📸 Image 1). 🔧 Stage 1: PubPeer as a Dossier-Building Tool It all starts with PubPeer, which is not used by the network mob for genuine post-publication review, but as a tool to create a dossier against targeted scientists. Some are direct targets, while others are collateral damage, instrumental in constructing an ecosystem of fear and intimidation within academia. This stage is orchestrated by just over 30 individuals, managing hundreds of fraudulent anonymous accounts. Only a few of them—those strategically selected to serve as the public face of the operation—operate under their real names as well. This selection serves two key purposes: 1️⃣ To collaborate with compromised journalists embedded in the network, and 2️⃣ To fraudulently collect awards and professional legitimacy through heavy infiltration and lobbying. ⚠️ Among the major actors in this stage are: • Perpetrator 1: A financial advisor with no academic or scientific credentials, and by their own admission, no understanding or interest in science. • Perpetrator 2: An aggressive operator who has uploaded virtually all published works of their victims to PubPeer in extremely short periods—hundreds of entries against a single individual in under a month (see 📸 Image 2A). • David Bimler (formerly Perpetrator 3): A notoriously unaccomplished and fraudulent academic and retired faculty member at @MasseyUni, with just 800 citations on Scopus (ID: 6603615509) across his entire career. He assists the network prolifically under his real name and through aliases such as Smut Clyde, Hoya camphorifolia, and others. • Leonid Schneider (formerly Perpetrator 4): A central orchestrator who operates both personally and through the identities of Perpetrators 1, 2, and Bimler, as well as over a dozen other mob members and their aliases, coordinating a significant portion of the dossier-building operations on PubPeer. 🚨 To fabricate such numbers, the Mob resorts to any tactics, including but not limited to: • Typographical or linguistic errors (as in some of the cases targeting Professor Wafiq El-Deiry) See📸 Image 2B: Extract from Perpetrator 1’s X account, sarcastically admitting to targeting minor errors. • Invented conflicts of interest, as seen in the case of Professor Jörg Rinklebe (see 📸 Image 2A) 🚷 Stage 2: Public Smearing via Schneider’s Blog Once the PubPeer records are planted, the next step is to drag the victims’ reputations through the mud—led by Leonid Schneider, who operates a notoriously derogatory blog. This is done through: • Slander • Ad hominem attacks • Insults, lies, and unsubstantiated accusations • The classic “partial truth” strategy, where fragments of truth are used to mask larger falsehoods ⚠️ Schneider is a persistently antagonistic, vindictive, and defamatory actor, who crosses all boundaries—attacking his victims’ physical appearance, private lives, and personal attributes. 🧾 The Core Tactic The central tactic is to falsely equate the number of PubPeer entries with the number of fraudulent papers—a deliberate distortion designed to mislead the academic community, media, and institutions. 📸 Image 3: Screenshot from Schneider’s blog targeting Professor Wafiq El-Deiry, a world-renowned cancer researcher, using the number of PubPeer entries as a manufactured metric of fraud. Despite persistent harassment, the campaign against him has largely failed due to growing academic awareness of these tactics. 🎭 Stage 3: “Legitimization” via Science Integrity Digest The third stage involves legitimizing the fabricated PubPeer records and dossiers through another fraudulent blog, Science Integrity Digest, operated by Perpetrator 5. This individual—a fraudulent microbiologist and self-branded “science integrity advocate”—has carefully manufactured this role over several years under the supervision and direction of the PubPeer Network Mob leadership. The blog is riddled with lies and manipulations, masked by carefully selected partial truths, and presented under the banner of “research integrity.” 📣 Stage 4: Formalization via Retraction Watch The final stage is formalization. The PubPeer records, now planted and legitimized, are then passed on to another fraudulent blog: Retraction Watch (@RetractionWatch). This stage is executed through compromised journalists serving that platform—again under the guise of research integrity. At this point, the story is ready to be sold to serious institutional clients: • Publishers • Funding agencies • Universities and research institutions • Mainstream media outlets and science news agencies 🚨 These last two stages also serve an additional function: To train and manipulate AI platforms so that automated narratives replicate the Mob’s manufactured stories, reinforcing their reach and influence. 📸 Image 4: The progression of the Mob’s operation in real-time—starting with the fraudulent PubPeer dossier created by the Mob members, followed by Schneider’s derogatory blog attacking Prof. El-Deiry, then Perpetrator 5’s “legitimization” blog, and finally Retraction Watch formalizing the false dossier for institutional dissemination. 📢 More updates are underway. We will continue exposing additional perpetrators, aliases, and tactics used to fabricate narratives, weaponize platforms, and distort the scientific record. 🔁 Share this post widely to protect the integrity of science and support those who have been targeted. 🔱 Follow @SciGuardians for evidence-based updates and tools. 🔱 Join the verified Post-Publication Peer Review Platform: scienceguardians.com Become a Science Guardian. 🔱 ScienceGuardians™ Accountability. Integrity. 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⚡️🚨 BREAKING: Prof. Ioannidis’s courageous stand reminds the world that he has not been alone. ⚠️ For years, the perpetrators of the PubPeer Network Mob—a tight-knit malicious group obsessed with controlling scientific narratives—has engaged in coordinated harassment, distortion, and extortion tactics against countless scientists. 🏛️ One of their most shameful targets? @NobelPrize Laureate Professor Thomas Südhof of @Stanford. This is a world-renowned neuroscientist whose work revolutionized medicine—yet he has been relentlessly attacked, censored, and defamed by the very same network that pretends to champion “scientific integrity”. As Prof. Südhof documents, these mobs exploit AI tools and social media echo chambers to fabricate accusations, manipulate perception, and pressure journals and institutions—all while profiting from their manufactured scandals. 🚨 This is not scientific integrity—it’s weaponized manipulation masquerading as oversight. 🧾 For those seeking deeper insight: Professor Thomas Südhof, on his official @Stanford website, has extensively documented the scale of harassment, extortion, and manipulation orchestrated by the PubPeer Network Mob. He exposes how its members—many riddled with serious conflicts of interest, including financial incentives—have systematically targeted scientists. ⚠️ Importantly, Prof. Südhof does not speak in generalities: he names specific perpetrators—including Perpetrators 1 and 5 in our investigation— and lays bare their tactics here 👉 med.stanford.edu/sudhoflab/i… This is a must-read for anyone serious about understanding the depth of corruption masquerading as “scientific integrity enforcement”. 🔱 With every exposure, their house of cards crumbles further. What we have revealed so far is only the tip of the iceberg—a glimpse into the deep corruption, deception, manipulation, and fraud perpetrated by the PubPeer Network Mob over the past decade. The era of harassment and coercive narrative control is approaching its end—and ScienceGuardians™ is here to help facilitate the academic community’s full liberation from these malign actors. 🏛️ To the world’s leading universities: The integrity of science depends on your commitment to uphold truth, protect researchers from orchestrated harassment, and scrutinize who claims to “police” science. The PubPeer Network Mob’s pattern of manipulation and coercion is a wake-up call—institutions must stand firm against bad-faith actors undermining trust in research: @MIT @Harvard @Stanford @UCBerkeley @Penn @Caltech @Yale @Princeton @UChicago @JohnsHopkins @Columbia @UCLA @Cornell @UMich @NorthwesternU @DukeU @USC @UCSanDiego @UW @UTAustin @UWMadison @BrownUniversity @UNC @GeorgiaTech @UF @VanderbiltU @RiceUniversity @Dartmouth @UVA @UCSantaBarbara @EmoryUniversity @OhioState @UniofOxford @ImperialCollege @ETH_en @UCL @Cambridge_Uni @NUSingapore @PKU1898 @Tsinghua_Uni @NTUsg @UTokyo_News_en @UNAM_MX @ucatolica @UCT_news @UniMelb @Sydney_Uni 🔎 EVIDENCE revealed so far: • 🗂️ Evidence 1: x.com/SciGuardians/status/19… • 🗂️ Evidence 2: x.com/SciGuardians/status/19… • 🗂️ Evidence 3: x.com/SciGuardians/status/19… • 🔄 Update to Evidence 3: x.com/SciGuardians/status/19… 📢 We encourage all members of the academic community to review and share these findings widely. Together, we can restore true integrity to science. #ScientificIntegrity #PubPeerNetworkMob #AcademicFreedom #Empowerment #ScienceGuardians🔱

🚨 UPDATE: The PubPeer Network Mob has desperately tried to portray Reese Richardson, a Postdoctoral Fellow at @AmaralLab @NorthwesternU, as a mere early career researcher, to divert attention while continuing to harass members of the academic community (📸 Image 1). Let’s be clear: there’s a stark distinction between accusation and self-confession. Richardson’s crimes are based on his own admissions and self-implications, in writing: ⚖️ He confessed to: ⚠️Cheating by exploiting Northwestern’s systems, violating the CFAA (18 U.S.C. § 1030). ⚠️ Providing resources and training for illegally obtaining .edu email addresses, enabling identity fraud (18 U.S.C. § 1028) and potential conspiracy (18 U.S.C. § 371). ⚠️ Creating fake papers and citation metrics, engaging in wire fraud (18 U.S.C. § 1343). ⚠️ Manipulating academic platforms like @ResearchGate and Google Scholar, further violating wire fraud and CFAA. ⚠️ Using a fake identity to bypass verification processes, reinforcing identity and wire fraud charges. ⚖️ Legally, fraud is fraud—those committing fraud under the pretext of “exposing fraud” are equally culpable under federal law (e.g., 18 U.S.C. § 1343, § 1030). 🚨 Richardson is an established member of the PubPeer Network Mob (1,056 entries), tightly coordinating with them and attending their meetings worldwide (📸 Image 2, from Perpetrator 4’s derogatory blog). His prosecution is critical to extract information about the Mob’s malicious activities—harassing, extorting, and defaming the academic community. 🔗 His blog posts reveal a pattern of pretextual misconduct, justifying his crimes while showing no remorse, reinforcing the need for prosecution under federal law. 🚨⚠️ If unpunished, Richardson’s crimes could lead to chaos: imagine every Northwestern student exploiting the university’s email system to create false identities, gaming academic and financial platforms. Or U.S. students using his “resources and training” to manipulate global academia with fake .edu domains. @NorthwesternU’s Research Integrity Office must act to prevent this—failure to address such misconduct risks enabling systemic fraud, violating their legal and ethical duty to uphold integrity (42 CFR Part 93). 🚨 Severe disciplinary actions are critical to deter junior researchers from resorting to fraud for personal gain or fame, ensuring such crimes are never normalized. 🔱 We urge @NorthwesternU, @HHS_ORI, and @NDILnews to act swiftly. 🔎 Read and share the original exposé for detailed evidence of Richardson’s self-confessions and self-implications: x.com/SciGuardians/status/19… #ResearchIntegrity #ExposeFraud #PubPeerMob

🚨 BREAKING: Exposing Legal and Ethical Violations by PubPeer Network Mob Member REESE RICHARDSON 🔱 Through a carefully planned operation, ScienceGuardians has successfully entrapped Reese Richardson, a Postdoctoral Fellow at @AmaralLab @NorthwesternU and active member of the PubPeer Network Mob. His public confessions and self-admissions have implicated him in multiple legal and ethical violations, including: 1️⃣ Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) Violation 2️⃣ Wire Fraud 3️⃣ Identity Misrepresentation 4️⃣ University Policy Violations These findings were uncovered through exchanges with Perpetrator 2 and Richardson’s own Bluesky posts. Perpetrator 5 , who has played a key role in masking the malicious activities of the PubPeer Network Mob is also implicated in this sequence of events. 📸 Evidence images included throughout ⬇️ 🕵️‍♂️ Entrapment: The Operation Richardson attempted to register on ScienceGuardians’ Post-Publication Peer Review Platform using: • lawrence.richardson@u.northwestern.edu (alias) • reeserichardson2019@u.northwestern.edu (his actual account) 🔱 Following the advice of our legal and investigative team, we approved the registration knowingly, allowing the sequence of events to unfold. 💬 Richardson’s Confessions and Self-Implication Shortly after registering, Richardson publicly boasted on Bluesky that he had registered using a fake identity and an alias email address under the name "Larry Richardson", created under the legitimate u.northwestern.edu domain. This was later retweeted by Perpetrator 5, further amplifying their involvement. 📸 Image 1: Richardson’s Bluesky confession and Perpetrator 5’s retweet. In private exchanges with Perpetrator 2, Richardson openly confessed to using Northwestern University’s legitimate domain to create a fraudulent email address for the purpose of impersonation, and admitted to "cheating" by exploiting his legitimate edu access to fabricate the alias. 📸 Images 2: Richardson’s self-implication in email fraud, identity misrepresentation, and other violations. ⚖️ Summary of Legal and Ethical Violations Richardson’s self-admissions implicate him in the following: 1️⃣ CFAA Violation: Misuse of Northwestern University’s email system to create a deceptive alias for fraudulent purposes. 2️⃣ Wire Fraud: Use of electronic communications to deceive ScienceGuardians’ verification process. 3️⃣ Identity Misrepresentation: Creation of a fictitious persona to bypass verification protocols. 4️⃣ Violation of University Policies: Breach of Northwestern’s IT and academic integrity policies through unauthorized use of university resources. 🔍 Past Confessions of System Manipulation In a blog post dated July 18, 2024, Richardson confessed to manipulating academic metrics 📸 Image 3: • Generated 12 fake papers via Mathgen under Larry Richardson. • Created 12 additional fake papers citing the first set, fabricating an h-index of 12 (144 citations). • Uploaded these to ResearchGate using the northwestern.edu alias. • Bypassed verification systems at ResearchGate and Google Scholar. 🧩 Context: PubPeer Network Mob’s Manipulation of Academic Systems Richardson’s deceptive actions are not isolated incidents but part of a broader pattern of manipulation and harassment perpetrated by the PubPeer Network Mob. Their tactics extend far beyond critique — they exploit and weaponize academic platforms and systems to overwhelm, discredit, and pressure researchers. A key example is Professor Jörg Rinklebe of @Uni_Wuppertal, who faced: • 500 publications targeted through PubPeer. • 100 entries in a single month by Perpetrator 2 (Desmococcus antarctica) — reflecting a calculated attempt to saturate academic platforms and manipulate perception. 🔗 Documented harassment against Rinklebe: x.com/SciGuardians/status/19… ⚠️ Connection to Perpetrator 5 📸 Image 4: After registering, Richardson acknowledged Perpetrator 5’s influence , which Perpetrator 5 then retweeted, amplifying the connection. 🔱 ScienceGuardians’ Mission Remains Clear We have exposed Reese Richardson, now designated Perpetrator 6 in our investigation. With 1,056 PubPeer entries, he is an active figure in the PubPeer Network Mob. 🔒 The fraudulent account associated with Richardson has been permanently blocked from ScienceGuardians’ Post-Publication Peer Review Platform. However, the records and comments they created will be preserved in full as evidence — serving as a testament to the tactics employed and as part of the broader documentation of this investigation. More disturbing revelations are coming. 📢 Stay with us. The next pieces of the puzzle will be revealed soon. #ResearchIntegrity #ExposeFraud #AcademicIntegrity #ScienceGuardians #PubPeerMob #CFAA #WireFraud @HHS_ORI @NIH @C0PE @UKRIO @EneriProject @EnrioAssoc @EmbassySci @ClarivateAG @timeshighered @ElsevierConnect @WileyGlobal @SpringerNature @WeAreTandF @PLOS @APSphysics @AIP_Publishing @CellCellPress @aaas @ScienceMagazine @TheLancet @Nature @RoySocChem @ACSPublications @Sage_Publishing @FrontiersIn @PhD_Genie @ThePhDPlace @PhDVoice @AcademicChatter @WCRIFoundation @hapyresearchers @OpenAcademics @thephdstory @Scholarshipps @AIRSAIndia @phdhardtalk @TressAcademic

in Australia the Queensland government is trying to destroy globally significant biospecimens from those who received the contaminated Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 gene therapies .. that, in a word, is Illegal so we have served Letters of Demand on all those involved [link to article below]

⚡️ BREAKING: Uncovering the Next Layer of a Coordinated Campaign: A Closer Look into Orchestrated Harassment by Additional Perpetrators of the PubPeer Network Mob 🗂️📌 We have previously revealed how Perpetrators 1 and 2 target researchers and scientists through various false identities. Perpetrator 1, a financial advisor, with no scientific or academic credential, has explicitly confessed to operating under multiple aliases, one of which is Actinopolyspora biskrensis, responsible for 9,515 comments as of 1 April 2025 (a number that has since grown to 9,569 as of 17 April 2025). It is important to note that, by their own admission, this is only one of their many identities. 🗂️📌 We subsequently secured another significant written confession from Perpetrator 1, in which they confirmed knowing Hoya camphorifolia — a fraudulent anonymous account on PubPeer responsible for approximately 25,000 comments as of 1 April 2025. More crucially, they admitted in writing that the person behind Hoya camphorifolia also uses multiple false identities. We designate this individual as Perpetrator 3, and the two have acknowledged working together. 🧩 The first snapshot illustrates the close association between these individuals, with Perpetrator 1 referring to Perpetrator 3 by one of their false identities, Hoya camphorifolia. As stated in previous disclosures, we had already gathered compelling evidence of a high level of coordination between these two fraudulent actors, whose real identities are known to us. However, from a legal and investigative standpoint, obtaining an explicit confession and admission of guilt was critical. 🚨 This brings us to the pseudonym Clare Francis, known for having posted thousands of comments on PubPeer. The aggression and threats associated with this alias were best summarized by @TomReller of @ElsevierConnect: “Generally speaking, Clare was rather disruptive at first, but by now most editors and publishing teams have an approach in place when it comes to managing Clare’s demands and threats.” 🧩 As shown in the second snapshot, Perpetrator 1 has disclosed an important operational detail about Clare Francis: “Posts under a unique PubPeer name for each paper.” This means that Clare Francis, already a false identity, operates through a large number of additional fraudulent aliases on PubPeer. Below is a small sample of these accounts, along with their number of PubPeer entries as of 17 April 2025: Digitalis ciliata — 20 entries Cyclope pellucida — 1 entry Calotis scapigera — 2 entries Convolvulus dryadum — 6 entries Acrotrema costatum — 1 entry Daucus minusculus — 11 entries Zeltnera quitensis — 4 entries Bathysiphon flexilis — 2 entries Greya variata — 6 entries Zelandoperla decorata — 6 entries Bolitoglossa morio — 5 entries Apiomerus vexillarius — 9 entries …and many more. We could continue listing them, but it would quickly become monotonous due to the sheer number of fraudulent identities being operated by this individual, operating under a completely fabricated identity. ⚠️ This pattern of alias-driven harassment builds on a history of anonymity in scientific critique. In a 2011 Lab Times editorial (mathbabe.org/wp-content/uplo…), @RetractionWatch co-founder @ivanoransky and @armarcus defended Clare Francis’s anonymous whistle-blowing. This defense may have emboldened Francis’s alleged escalation into a central figure in the PubPeer Network Mob, using aliases to harass researchers. Oransky, now a PubPeer board member, praised the platform in a 2022 tweet as vital to science correction (“difficult to imagine… science itself… without PubPeer”), raising questions about oversight as alleged abuses proliferate on PubPeer. Notably, the only comment on that tweet came from a PubPeer Network Mob member, whose identity and malicious activities are known to us and will be addressed as we reveal further pieces of this puzzle. They wrote, “In an ideal world PubPeer would be supported by the NIH, which would also take it very seriously… Alas, we don’t live in an ideal world...”, highlighting the Mob’s advocacy for unchecked influence (see the third snapshot). 🚨 Perpetrator 1 has referred to Clare Francis on their X account more than 40 times, revealing additional details about their close association, as evidenced in the fourth snapshot. This relationship takes on greater significance given their shared fixation on a prominent cancer researcher, Professor Wafik S. El-Deiry (@weldeiry), a physician-scientist, Director of @BrownUCancer, and Associate Dean at @BrownMedicine, @BrownUniversity. 🎓 Professor El-Deiry is widely recognized as one of the top cancer researchers in the United States, and he is currently nominated by the @POTUS @RobertKennedyJr @DrJBhattacharya team for the prestigious position of Director of the National Cancer Institute (@theNCI). ⚠️ Perpetrator 1 has attacked Professor El-Deiry on their X account numerous times, including 26 attacks just over the five-day period from 12–17 April 2025. Meanwhile, Clare Francis has shown an unrelenting obsession, sending over 100 emails to nearly every institution with which Professor El-Deiry is affiliated. And yes — as many have come to expect — threats are a standard part of Clare Francis’ conduct. Among the many false accounts operated under the Clare Francis pseudonym is the anonymous identity Apiomerus vexillarius, which was created 8 months ago and has 9 entries on PubPeer, all targeting publications authored by Professor El-Deiry, as shown in the second snapshot. The magnitude of threats, disrespect, harassment, and extortion endured by Professor El-Deiry at the hands of Perpetrator 1 and Clare Francis is simply unimaginable. On 15 April, Professor El-Deiry publicly shared via X a cluster of orchestrated attacks carried out by members of the PubPeer Network Mob. All of these attacks occurred within a 22-minute window, each calling for the retraction of his articles (See fifth snapshot; 📸 snapshots 5–8 are included in the continuation of this thread ⬇️) 🔔 This campaign of coordinated harassment began in May 2024, after the publication of a scientific article by Professor El-Deiry and his team in Oncotarget entitled: “Transfected SARS-CoV-2 spike DNA for mammalian cell expression inhibits p53 activation of p21(WAF1), TRAIL Death Receptor DR5 and MDM2 proteins in cancer cells and increases cancer cell viability after chemotherapy exposure” 📌 As with previous cases we have documented, we at ScienceGuardians™ do not comment on the scientific content or conclusions of any paper. Our focus remains solely on exposing and addressing the orchestrated attacks, deceptive behaviors, and fraudulent tactics employed by members of the PubPeer Network Mob in their efforts to discredit researchers. Since that publication, the harassment has intensified dramatically, with close to 60 of Professor El-Deiry’s papers targeted on PubPeer over the past 8 months. 🚨 Remember Perpetrator 4, referenced in the second snapshot, who was praised by Perpetrator 1 as “highly influential”? This individual operates one of the major sections of the PubPeer Network Mob, running a derogatory blog that is: • Riddled with slander • Filled with unsubstantiated accusations • Saturated with mockery • Framed with inflammatory language This blog reflects a signature tactic employed by the PubPeer Network Mob: presenting partial truths to establish credibility, while subtly injecting misinformation, false accusations, and slander for strategic manipulation. As shown in the sixth snapshot, Perpetrator 4’s blog post dated 17 May 2024 launched an attack on Professor El-Deiry’s Oncotarget paper as part of a lengthy post — marking the beginning of a series of eight coordinated blog attacks against him, all of which used inflammatory and mocking rhetoric. Disrespect and ad hominem attacks are routine behavior among members of the PubPeer Network Mob. For example, in the seventh snapshot, Perpetrator 2 refers to Professor El-Deiry as “#BrownClown” (left image), and in another exchange with Perpetrator 1, both resort to vitriolic and defamatory language. In yet another attack, Perpetrator 2 falsely and publicly referred to both Professor Wafik El-Deiry (@weldeiry) and NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya) as “rather dubious researchers” (bottom right image), further illustrating the persistent pattern of baseless personal smears aimed at discrediting respected figures in medicine and science. We are deeply sorry that we must share these disturbing realities with the academic community, but the scale of defamation and targeted harassment cannot be overstated. 🔱 We, at ScienceGuardians™, have, on multiple occasions, invited members of the academic and research communities to join this initiative and become Science Guardians themselves. Following the launch of the ScienceGuardians™ platform in November 2024, we prioritized outreach to those most affected by campaigns of harassment and defamation led by members of the PubPeer Network Mob. Professor El-Deiry was placed among those at the top of this list and was one of the first scientists to register on the platform at scienceguardians.com, also sharing it publicly on X. ⚠️ Since then, members of the PubPeer Mob have tried to falsely insinuate that Professor El-Deiry is the creator or a member of ScienceGuardians, as shown in the eighth snapshot, which was extracted from the derogatory blog operated by Perpetrator 4. 🔔 But we must pose a simple question: Would the founder of a sophisticated, well-designed, and fully supported platform like ScienceGuardians — one that offers a secure and constructive alternative to PubPeer, and whose post-publication peer review features effectively challenge and improve on platforms like PubPeer — be the first to register and promote the platform publicly in their own name? The answer is obvious: No. it would be highly illogical and counterproductive for anyone to reveal their identity in such a direct manner, particularly before the platform has had a chance to establish itself. And yet, here we are — confronted with a clear and easily verifiable example of how falsehoods and slander are being deliberately spread through this derogatory blog. The claim that Professor El-Deiry founded ScienceGuardians is not only baseless but so transparently false that even the most minimal scrutiny reveals it for what it is: a desperate attempt to discredit a scientist by weaponizing manufactured narratives. 🛑 This pattern extends far beyond this single instance — much of the content published on this derogatory blog follows the same blueprint of distortion, misrepresentation, and coordinated personal attacks. 💡 Let us recall the words of one of ScienceGuardians’ legal advisors: “Perpetrators and criminals are rarely intelligent — they simply exploit fear and leverage intimidation as their primary tools of control.” This recent pattern of false accusations and clumsy narratives suggests only one thing: the perpetrators are growing agitated and frustrated. They are losing control of a space they once dominated — a space they used to harass and exploit vulnerable researchers through financially motivated, coordinated attacks. Now, 🔱 ScienceGuardians has disrupted this domain. The balance has shifted. The exploitation is being exposed. And the perpetrators, in their desperation, are beginning to unveil their own malicious tactics — ultimately exposing themselves. 📢 We call on @BrownUniversity, @BrownMedicine, @BrownUnivHealth, @NIH, and @HHSGov to immediately investigate these malicious, targeted, and orchestrated attacks on Professor Wafik El-Deiry — and to take a principled stand against the intimidation and threats propagated by mobs undermining academic integrity. ⚖️ We further urge full-scale investigations by federal and legal authorities, including: @FBI @FBIDirectorKash @FBIDDBongino @DHSgov @Sec_Noem @DOGE @elonmusk @secgov @TheJusticeDept @AGPamBondi @FinCENnews 🎯 These actions must be taken to protect the foundations of the scientific enterprise — and to ensure that fraudulent networks do not compromise the nation’s commitment to merit-based, transparent, and integrity-driven recruitment and leadership across public institutions. 📢 To global media and talk shows: Expose orchestrated network mobs harassing scientists for power and gain. The academic community demands accountability! @FoxNews @NEWSMAX @BreitbartNews @DailyCaller @dcexaminer @FDRLST @realDailyWire @OANN @townhallcom @NRO @AFP @france_soir @dwnews @derspiegel @el_pais @EFEnoticias @LaVanguardia @Agenzia_Ansa @Corriere