#Receptiogate
1. Registering a company at a correspondence address is utterly normal commercial practice (although expressly describing it as a physical office is not).
2. Using stock photos to represent employees seems to be common, even by otherwise legitimate companies. 1/
1. Registering a company at a correspondence address is utterly normal commercial practice (although expressly describing it as a physical office is not).
2. Using stock photos to represent employees seems to be common, even by otherwise legitimate companies. 1/
https://twitter.com/incunabula/status/1608283102434009090
3. Plagiarizing text & photos from a blog or other online sources without acknowledgement is dishonest and appalling scholarly practice, but generally not criminal.
4. Obtaining grant money for what turns out to be shoddy or academically flawed work is not per se criminal. 2/
4. Obtaining grant money for what turns out to be shoddy or academically flawed work is not per se criminal. 2/
The relevant authorities - and the mainstream media - are now aware of the matter. Criminal justice - if that's what Rossi should face - should be pursued soberly & carefully by the police & the Swiss courts, not by a gleeful online mob who are seeing it all as entertainment. 3/
Of course Receptio is shady, of course it should have been exposed, of course Peter was right to blog about it. I've said all this repeatedly. But NOW, 5 days later, much of the #Receptiogate discourse on Twitter is just gleeful schadenfreude and popcorn memes. It's enough. 4/
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