🚨 In March 2025, Dr. Leslie McIntosh (Dr Leslie McIntosh), VP of Research Integrity at Digital Science and Founder of Forensic Scientometrics (#FoSci), exposed a disturbing trend in academic integrity. Her article, "Fraud, Blackmail, and the Weaponization of Integrity", reveals how some

🚨 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

Thanks for reading. We hope this thread offered a beacon of hope for the future of academic and scientific integrity. A bit about us: We are a team of skilled data and IT professionals trained extensively in academic publishing, ethics, and integrity. Though we’re not

In a world of “publish or perish,” AI disruption, and an intensifying replication crisis, science needs ethical scrutiny more than ever. But what happens when anonymous “integrity watchdogs” trade evidence for volume, turning critique into public shaming? Damià Barceló,

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🚨 BREAKING: Taylor & Francis Compromised — PubPeer Network Mob Member Nick Wise Infiltrates Research Integrity Office 📌 In January 2025, Nick Wise infiltrated Taylor & Francis’ Research Integrity & Ethics office as Research Integrity Manager (📸 Image 1A: Nick Wise’s LinkedIn

🚨 Formal Notice Regarding Conflicts of Interest and Integrity Risks in Taylor & Francis’ Research Integrity & Ethics Office In the interest of transparency and accountability, ScienceGuardians™ has formally served notice to Taylor & Francis (Taylor & Francis Research Insights Taylor & Francis)

📢⚠️ A Glimpse Into the PubPeer Network Mob’s Support Layer We recently had an exchange with a member of the extended network of roughly 1,000 individuals who can be activated by the PubPeer Network Mob (see our post here: x.com/SciGuardians/s…) to contribute to their

Spark_gap Kevin McKernan ⚠️ There’s more to it than this. K.P. — identified as Perpetrator 1 in our investigation — is a financial advisor with ZERO scientific or academic credentials. This active member of the PubPeer Network Mob, who is essentially in charge of certain coordination as well, is

🚨🔱 Follow-Up: Holden Thorp Puzzle — Piece 2 We, at ScienceGuardians™, began to expose the PubPeer Network Mob on 7 April 2025, with this post: 👉 x.com/SciGuardians/s… And just a couple of weeks later, on 25 April 2025, the compromised journalist serving the PubPeer

🚨 Exactly as we warned 🚨 Taylor & Francis’ Research Integrity office has been infiltrated and compromised by the PubPeer Network Mob. We have already served them a formal notice and made it public: 👉 scienceguardians.substack.com/p/formal-notic… 🔗 Taylor & Francis Compromised — PubPeer Network

🚨 BREAKING: Fraud in the Record — Leonid Schneider’s PhD Thesis & Taylor & Francis’ Complicity Leonid Schneider — a sadist, serial online bully, and operator of the highly derogatory For Better Science blog — a central element of the PubPeer “PubSmear” Network Mob, has built a

🚨 A large volume of entries created by the perpetrators of the PubPeer ‘PubSmear’ Network Mob on the compromised Pubpeer platform are riddled with errors and deliberate inaccuracies — manufactured to serve ulterior motives and advance their malicious agenda. 📢 Their Mechanism

🚨 Let’s recall: Taylor & Francis’ Research Integrity office, infiltrated by PubPeer “PubSmear” Network Mob member Nick Wise as Research Integrity Manager, hastily tagged this paper 👇 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… as “This article is currently under investigation” — with absolutely

🚨 Unfortunately again, exactly as we warned 🚨 When an outlet — led by nature’s Chief Editor, Careers, Jack Leeming — recklessly promotes a PubPeer “PubSmear” Network Mob member with a documented record of vulgar harassment, lies, and deception as a model of “research

🚨 NATURE IN DISGRACE 🚨 🚨 How come — and under what conceivable standards — does nature’s Chief careers editor, Jack Leeming still keep his job, after promoting and glorifying such a low character as PubPeer “PubSmear” Network Mob member Lonni Besançon, whose own public

🚨 NATURE IN DISGRACE — UPDATE 🚨 ⚠️ In addition to a documented pattern of vulgar, s-e-x-u-a-l-i-z-e-d, and dehumanizing remarks toward others in the academic community, Lonni Besançon also resorts to threats—perfectly aligned with the core strategy of the PubPeer “PubSmear”