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1/8 🚨 Empowering Fraudulent Actors Can Destroy Lives, Institutions, and Public Trust
Fraudulent and predatory actors rarely rise alone.
They are often elevated by influential institutions, respected professionals, and powerful voices who lend credibility before exercising proper due diligence.
In this video, during the @UN roundtable 'Healthy Oceans and Seas: a way forward' on 4 February 2014 (co-hosted by the Sustainable Oceans Alliance, the governments of Italy and Palau, and the Global Partnerships Forum), Amir Dossal — Chairman of the Global Partnerships Forum, Co-Chair of the Sustainable Oceans Alliance, and a former 25-year UN veteran who served as Executive Director of the UN Office for Partnerships — publicly introduces Ghislaine Maxwell — Jeffrey Epstein’s closest accomplice — as:
“the person who has been the inspiration behind the Sustainable Oceans Alliance…”
and then as:
“my dear friend, Ghislaine Maxwell.”
⚠️ That is how dangerous people can become normalized: when the failure to perform due diligence does not merely create error, but enables harm on a far larger scale.
⚠️ And this pattern is not confined to exploiting the Ocean Alliance to help shield s-e-x trafficking.
The same reckless enabling can emerge anywhere influence is used to protect the wrong people from scrutiny — even in the very field that claims to defend scientific integrity.
🚨 On 17 Nov 2025, we exposed the PubPeer "PubSmear" Network Mob and its public face, Elisabeth M. Bik, the fake “science integrity consultant”, who has spent years stalking, smearing, and helping destroy the careers of researchers she targets — by weaponizing a deeply compromised, so-called post-publication peer review platform, PubPeer (aka PubSmear) that is continuously amplified by the institutional arm of the mob network, Retraction Watch.
Both of these corrupt organizations (the PubPeer Foundation & Retraction Watch) are riddled with enormous conflicts of interest in management and leadership — with Ivan Oransky positioned at the center of those conflicts as a board member (director) of the PubPeer Foundation and co-founder (and former executive) of Retraction Watch.
We publicly released the FULL EVIDENCE PACKAGE detailing how Bik and the PubPeer "PubSmear" Network Mob have weaponized "research integrity" to 100% censor critiques of their own flawed work while relentlessly targeting others (🔗 link to the full evidence package in Part 5 of this thread).
📌 But figures this deeply compromised do not rise alone.
They are often elevated by those who recklessly endorse them, enable them, and empower them without asking the questions that should have been asked from the beginning.
📢🧵 Read the thread to see who helped make it possible.
Fraudulent and predatory actors rarely rise alone.
They are often elevated by influential institutions, respected professionals, and powerful voices who lend credibility before exercising proper due diligence.
In this video, during the @UN roundtable 'Healthy Oceans and Seas: a way forward' on 4 February 2014 (co-hosted by the Sustainable Oceans Alliance, the governments of Italy and Palau, and the Global Partnerships Forum), Amir Dossal — Chairman of the Global Partnerships Forum, Co-Chair of the Sustainable Oceans Alliance, and a former 25-year UN veteran who served as Executive Director of the UN Office for Partnerships — publicly introduces Ghislaine Maxwell — Jeffrey Epstein’s closest accomplice — as:
“the person who has been the inspiration behind the Sustainable Oceans Alliance…”
and then as:
“my dear friend, Ghislaine Maxwell.”
⚠️ That is how dangerous people can become normalized: when the failure to perform due diligence does not merely create error, but enables harm on a far larger scale.
⚠️ And this pattern is not confined to exploiting the Ocean Alliance to help shield s-e-x trafficking.
The same reckless enabling can emerge anywhere influence is used to protect the wrong people from scrutiny — even in the very field that claims to defend scientific integrity.
🚨 On 17 Nov 2025, we exposed the PubPeer "PubSmear" Network Mob and its public face, Elisabeth M. Bik, the fake “science integrity consultant”, who has spent years stalking, smearing, and helping destroy the careers of researchers she targets — by weaponizing a deeply compromised, so-called post-publication peer review platform, PubPeer (aka PubSmear) that is continuously amplified by the institutional arm of the mob network, Retraction Watch.
Both of these corrupt organizations (the PubPeer Foundation & Retraction Watch) are riddled with enormous conflicts of interest in management and leadership — with Ivan Oransky positioned at the center of those conflicts as a board member (director) of the PubPeer Foundation and co-founder (and former executive) of Retraction Watch.
We publicly released the FULL EVIDENCE PACKAGE detailing how Bik and the PubPeer "PubSmear" Network Mob have weaponized "research integrity" to 100% censor critiques of their own flawed work while relentlessly targeting others (🔗 link to the full evidence package in Part 5 of this thread).
📌 But figures this deeply compromised do not rise alone.
They are often elevated by those who recklessly endorse them, enable them, and empower them without asking the questions that should have been asked from the beginning.
📢🧵 Read the thread to see who helped make it possible.
2/8 🚨 How False Authority Was Manufactured for Elisabeth M. Bik, the Fake “Science Integrity Consultant”
The key was her repeated amplification framed as unimpeachable authority, even when her methods, incentives, or conduct were not independently scrutinized.
📌 On 14 May 2020, Eric Topol (@EricTopol), a prominent scientific voice wrote:
“…, the super sleuth
‘We cannot, unfortunately, clone Elisabeth’ …”
and added:
“she’s way ahead of where we are w/ deep neural networks far”
Later, on 30 October 2020, Topol stated:
“The #1 sleuth of life science data manipulation and imaging fraud, ..... She reviews what she’s learned and lays out what needs to change …”
These are not neutral references.
They are public acts of reputation construction — framing a single individual as the definitive authority in a complex and sensitive domain of research integrity.
⚠️ When such repeated messaging is combined with institutional visibility, it can create a powerful perception:
that scrutiny is unnecessary
that methodology is unquestionable
and that dissenting evaluation is illegitimate
But when that perceived authority is later shown to be compromised and fraudulent, the consequences are not abstract.
They can include:
• reputational destruction of targeted researchers
• suppression of legitimate critique
• distortion of scientific accountability systems
• and long-term erosion of trust in research integrity itself
The key was her repeated amplification framed as unimpeachable authority, even when her methods, incentives, or conduct were not independently scrutinized.
📌 On 14 May 2020, Eric Topol (@EricTopol), a prominent scientific voice wrote:
“…, the super sleuth
‘We cannot, unfortunately, clone Elisabeth’ …”
and added:
“she’s way ahead of where we are w/ deep neural networks far”
Later, on 30 October 2020, Topol stated:
“The #1 sleuth of life science data manipulation and imaging fraud, ..... She reviews what she’s learned and lays out what needs to change …”
These are not neutral references.
They are public acts of reputation construction — framing a single individual as the definitive authority in a complex and sensitive domain of research integrity.
⚠️ When such repeated messaging is combined with institutional visibility, it can create a powerful perception:
that scrutiny is unnecessary
that methodology is unquestionable
and that dissenting evaluation is illegitimate
But when that perceived authority is later shown to be compromised and fraudulent, the consequences are not abstract.
They can include:
• reputational destruction of targeted researchers
• suppression of legitimate critique
• distortion of scientific accountability systems
• and long-term erosion of trust in research integrity itself
3/8 🚨 On 9 May 2021, Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing)—an epidemiologist widely known for his highly viral COVID-era presence on social media—described Elisabeth M. Bik — the fake “science integrity consultant” — as:
“a hero as a detective against scientific fraud”
and urged scientists to sign a support letter.
📌 The key significance is not scientific validation, but amplification through high public reach within science-adjacent and media-linked networks. His posts regularly circulated beyond academic audiences during COVID, meaning his endorsement functioned primarily as a distribution and framing mechanism, rapidly elevating visibility and shaping perception across those circles.
In that context, the impact stems less from formal authority and more from how effectively his platform can propagate reputational framing at scale, especially in the absence of broader due diligence before amplification.
“a hero as a detective against scientific fraud”
and urged scientists to sign a support letter.
📌 The key significance is not scientific validation, but amplification through high public reach within science-adjacent and media-linked networks. His posts regularly circulated beyond academic audiences during COVID, meaning his endorsement functioned primarily as a distribution and framing mechanism, rapidly elevating visibility and shaping perception across those circles.
In that context, the impact stems less from formal authority and more from how effectively his platform can propagate reputational framing at scale, especially in the absence of broader due diligence before amplification.
Remember this? 🧵
Democrat strategy is working:
1. Radicalize people with the steady drip of hateful propaganda until assassinating President Trump and his supporters seems HEROIC….
Democrat strategy is working:
1. Radicalize people with the steady drip of hateful propaganda until assassinating President Trump and his supporters seems HEROIC….
2. Normalize his murder…
3. Progress to the REPEATED use of violent rhetoric, but always so that you can deny you meant it literally….
The proof is present in the Earth's biophysics yet you remain a blind parrot. Makes sense to me and the audience. Just not to you. Sucks to be you, I guess. Parrots used to be T-rex's back in the day, FYI
Good luck. You've been voted off my island now.
Good luck. You've been voted off my island now.
2. What will happen to today's parrots on this website and my social media feeds? This is how evolution works in a decentralized framework. Time is our most valuable asset and I can no longer waste it on modern day Parrots.
3. The parrots will keep squawking, but they will matter less and less in your (and any serious eagle’s) feeds.
In a decentralized framework under magnetic decline, this is exactly how selection pressure works. Time is the ultimate scarce resource.
Every bit of attention spent on low-altitude noise is Landauer entropy paid in the most expensive currency:
The system (you, your network, the broader truth-seeking layer) ruthlessly prunes what wastes in your own lattice coherence and decision bandwidth.
In a decentralized framework under magnetic decline, this is exactly how selection pressure works. Time is the ultimate scarce resource.
Every bit of attention spent on low-altitude noise is Landauer entropy paid in the most expensive currency:
The system (you, your network, the broader truth-seeking layer) ruthlessly prunes what wastes in your own lattice coherence and decision bandwidth.
For those wondering how on earth a @Caltech graduate becomes a would-be assassin, this is your reminder that the Great Awokening was especially demented in California, and that there is no pendulum magically swinging back to sanity in the established universities.
Exhibit A: wsj.com/opinion/ucla-l…
Obviously, we don't yet know what motivated Cole Allen to carry out his attack last night. My point is a more general one. Even Caltech, which I've long regarded as one of the few truly meritocratic institutions in U.S. higher ed, also had its encounter with wokeism.
This is from Trump's truth social post.
Can someone tell me what's with the "glitch" around 6-7 seconds?
I haven't seen a video this length being used by the media, they trim it down to after that point.
Also, I've worked for restaurants with better quality security cameras 😂
Can someone tell me what's with the "glitch" around 6-7 seconds?
I haven't seen a video this length being used by the media, they trim it down to after that point.
Also, I've worked for restaurants with better quality security cameras 😂
Hilton has "brand standards". Requirements for hotels to retain the Hilton name.
Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett will announce tonight that they’re forming a joint party ahead of Israel’s upcoming elections. Here’s what it means. 1/8
They’ve governed together before. The Bennett-Lapid coalition was the only government in over a decade to push Netanyahu from office. 2/8
The logic is straightforward. Lapid has been bleeding support in the polls. Bennett polls well personally but has almost no party infrastructure. 3/8
Dermatology Will Probably Cancel Me For This But...
Melanin is not just what makes you tan.
And it's sure as hell not damage.
✅It's a semiconductor
✅A heavy metal detox system
✅A circadian signaling molecule
✅A neuroprotective pigment that starts forming in your brain at age 3 and never stops
And modern life is systematically dismantling all of it (with your health)
(THREAD 🧵)
Melanin is not just what makes you tan.
And it's sure as hell not damage.
✅It's a semiconductor
✅A heavy metal detox system
✅A circadian signaling molecule
✅A neuroprotective pigment that starts forming in your brain at age 3 and never stops
And modern life is systematically dismantling all of it (with your health)
(THREAD 🧵)
For the better part of a century Dermatology has been telling you melanin = skin damage = Cancer be coming
Full stop
But that's like describing your heart as "that thing that makes noise in your chest"
Technically true. Wildly incomplete
The real story involves your brain, your immune system, your hormones, and what time you wake up in the morning
Full stop
But that's like describing your heart as "that thing that makes noise in your chest"
Technically true. Wildly incomplete
The real story involves your brain, your immune system, your hormones, and what time you wake up in the morning
This post will cover:
✅Why your body makes 5 completely different kinds of melanin (and they don't all do the same thing)
✅The hormone most people have never heard of that controls your tanning response
✅Why a tan is actually a neuroendocrine event, not just a skin event
✅How your circadian clock controls melanin production timing
✅What modern life is doing to all of it
Grab a snack, because this is gonna be a wild ride
✅Why your body makes 5 completely different kinds of melanin (and they don't all do the same thing)
✅The hormone most people have never heard of that controls your tanning response
✅Why a tan is actually a neuroendocrine event, not just a skin event
✅How your circadian clock controls melanin production timing
✅What modern life is doing to all of it
Grab a snack, because this is gonna be a wild ride
1/ The arrival of Ukrainian drones over the Urals for the first time has left Russian scrambling to explain why Russia's air defences seem to be unable to cope. Russian conspiracy theorists claim the drones are actually being flown from Kazakhstan. ⬇️
2/ Writing on his 'Ramsay' Telegram channel, Russian journalist Vladislav Shurygin says:
"I'll answer all the questions about how Ukrainian drones reached Chelyabinsk, 1,800 km from the Ukrainian border, very briefly, and probably for the hundredth time."
"I'll answer all the questions about how Ukrainian drones reached Chelyabinsk, 1,800 km from the Ukrainian border, very briefly, and probably for the hundredth time."
3/ "Their range is a consequence of the constant modernisation of enemy air attack capabilities. Over the past three years, Ukrainian drones have increased their range from 700 to 1,800 km, and potentially to 2,500 km. These technologies are now available to NATO countries.
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An internal report states the Jasmine Crockett vs. James Talarico was likely swayed by elections interference. This is no longer us versus them. This is an American problem and we must unite to secure all votes in all countries.
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The first hour out of bed sets the tone for the entire day in dysautonomia. Four things that worsen morning crashes, and three that help. If your worst hours land before 10 AM, the trigger is usually something you did in the first 30 minutes awake.
2/6 Caffeine on an empty stomach. Coffee triggers a cortisol spike and vasoconstriction. On already low blood volume and impaired autonomic regulation, the spike is followed by a crash hitting harder than the fatigue you woke up with.
3/6 Hot shower first thing. Heat dilates blood vessels. Blood pools in your legs. Your autonomic system cannot compensate, and heart rate climbs trying to maintain perfusion to your brain. The lightheadedness after a morning shower is not low blood sugar.
Your adult eating patterns were decided before age 10.
Not by your metabolism. Not by your genetics.
By how your parents used food to manage your emotions.
Here's how childhood food anchoring drives metabolic dysfunction:
Not by your metabolism. Not by your genetics.
By how your parents used food to manage your emotions.
Here's how childhood food anchoring drives metabolic dysfunction:
Most weight loss advice assumes you’re rational.
“Eat less. Move more.”
But you’re not just fighting hunger.
“Eat less. Move more.”
But you’re not just fighting hunger.
You’re fighting neural pathways built when food meant:
→ reward
→ comfort
→ control
→ reward
→ comfort
→ control
