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Unfortunately, the anonymity that makes PubPeer work is under threat. A prominent cancer scientist, unhappy with the attention his research papers have received on PubPeer, is suing some of our anonymous commenters for defamation. And he is trying to use a subpoena to force PubPeer to turn over whatever identifying information we have for them.
The problem here is not anything to do with anonymity but the idea that criticising scientific ideas is defamation or that it is in anyway appropriate for a scientist to pursue such avenues to protect their work. The cancer scientist in question should be disciplined by his institute for bringing science them, and science, into disrepute.
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