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Science, medicine and healthPolitics and government
Documented profile covering 8 controversies, including “Withdrawal from 2022 presidential race in favour of Yoon Suk Yeol after defending independent candidacy” and “Fabricated allegation against Moon Jae-in's son: Ahn apologises, then senior leaders cleared”.
8 controversies · 17 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 8 controversies, including “2023: publishing success of 'Les Apprentis sorciers' and repetition of disputed claims about messenger RNA, DNA and vaccine effects” and “2020–2021: viral video claiming mRNA vaccines could integrate into genome and transmit changes to future generations”.
8 controversies · 9 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 4 controversies, including “2016–2018: Dana Carney disavows robust effects while Cuddy defends narrower version supported by meta-analyses” and “Job interview study: formal correction published in 2018”.
4 controversies · 5 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 8 controversies, including “2021–2026: AG1 sponsorship and advisory role raise conflict-of-interest questions over recommendations” and “2025–2026: Promotes AGZ sleep supplement despite lack of convincing published evidence for finished product”.
8 controversies · 12 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 14 controversies, including “2024–2025: Continues vaccine activism through Protocol 7 film and statements challenging consensus” and “2016: Vaxxed withdrawn from Tribeca Film Festival programme”.
14 controversies · 14 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “2011–2015: eight civil lawsuits by patients or families, confidential settlement with Duke and Potti” and “2015: ORI finds scientific misconduct — data reversed, switched or altered in multiple studies”.
9 controversies · 10 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 12 controversies, including “David Morens's private emails and allegations of a 'back channel' to circumvent FOIA” and “ODNI accuses Fauci of manipulating intelligence analysis and misleading Congress on COVID origins”.
12 controversies · 22 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 8 controversies, including “2005: With J. Philippe Rushton, renewed defence of a genetic component in average Black–White IQ differences” and “1994: Signatory of 'Mainstream Science on Intelligence' amid The Bell Curve controversy”.
8 controversies · 11 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “Haven: difficulties, staff turnover, Gawande's departure as CEO and joint venture closure” and “USAID appointment delayed over earlier essay on abortion, then confirmed by Senate”.
5 controversies · 10 sources
Science, medicine and healthMedia and journalism
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “Contractual dispute with CBC: EGP 100 million arbitration award subsequently overturned by court” and “Permanent cancellation of Al-Bernameg amid political pressure”.
5 controversies · 8 sources1 formal charge
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 6 controversies, including “2018–2022: corrections bring total to eighteen retracted papers; he subsequently resumes publishing using old datasets” and “2018–2019: Cornell finds academic misconduct; Wansink resigns and is barred from teaching and research until departure”.
6 controversies · 10 sources
Arts, letters and intellectualsScience, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “'Nudge' and libertarian paternalism: criticism over manipulation, autonomy and transparency” and “Rules delayed before 2012 election: accounts of political obstruction, denied by administration”.
5 controversies · 7 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “2023: complaint against Health Minister Aurélien Rousseau alleging 'attempted fraud to obtain vaccination consent' dismissed without further action” and “2020–2022: RMC remarks denying renewed epidemic — broadcaster warning upheld by Conseil d'État”.
9 controversies · 10 sources
Science, medicine and healthBusiness and billionaires
Documented profile covering 10 controversies, including “Human Longevity: trade secret theft allegation against his institute, lawsuit dismissed” and “Predicting faces from DNA: paper strongly challenged over allegedly exaggerated conclusions”.
10 controversies · 17 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 6 controversies, including “1980–1995: Posthumous institutional condemnation for fraud, followed by renewed debate without definitive rehabilitation” and “1976–1990s: Controversy over Margaret Howard and Jane/J. Conway, collaborators difficult to identify”.
6 controversies · 8 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “'Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance': forensic anomalies, failed replication and retraction in September 2026” and “'The Dishonesty of Honest People': 25 direct replications fail, followed by Expression of Concern in 2024”.
7 controversies · 12 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “'The Book of Animal Secrets': at least 95 plagiarised passages, publication suspended and apology” and “Three earlier books: more than 120 passages almost identical to pre-existing sources”.
5 controversies · 8 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 8 controversies, including “2021: “smoking gun” description of SARS-CoV-2 furin cleavage site followed by public clarification” and “1996: HHS appeal panel overturns misconduct findings against Imanishi-Kari — Baltimore publicly vindicated”.
8 controversies · 12 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Public promises of radical life extension: criticism of claims deemed excessively speculative” and “Tally Health: marketing a 'biological age' test despite still-limited clinical validation”.
7 controversies · 11 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Subsequent testimony claiming approximately 129,000 additional deaths could have been prevented” and “Criticism of 'autocratic' management and pressure over targets within PEPFAR”.
9 controversies · 14 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 10 controversies, including “2026: correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein disclosed — visits and messages after 2016, without allegations of participation in Epstein's crimes” and “1990s–2022: “quantum healing” repeatedly criticised for misusing scientific vocabulary; Chopra eventually calls “quantum” a metaphor”.
10 controversies · 11 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 8 controversies, including “2020–2025: medical disciplinary proceedings — reprimand at first instance, two-year practice ban on appeal and Conseil d'État refusal to admit appeal” and “2024–2025: six older papers retracted over ethical concerns, followed by continued scientific reassessment and criminal investigation into unauthorised research”.
8 controversies · 12 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 11 controversies, including “2012–2015: voluntary surrender of doctorate, criminal settlement involving 120 hours of community service and at least 58 retractions” and “2012–2013: passages in autobiography criticised as unattributed borrowings from Raymond Carver and James Joyce”.
11 controversies · 7 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 6 controversies, including “White House: internal investigation into humiliating and intimidating behaviour, followed by resignation” and “Meetings with Jeffrey Epstein after his conviction: questions during White House nomination”.
6 controversies · 10 sources
Business and billionairesScience, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 13 controversies, including “2025–2026: Michelle Ritter accuses Schmidt of sexual assault and surveillance; preliminary arbitration ruling favours Schmidt” and “2019–2024: investments and business ties in China while warning Washington about Chinese technological competition”.
13 controversies · 22 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “$25 million lawsuit against Harvard and Data Colada for defamation, discrimination and contractual breaches” and “Harvard countersues for defamation and accuses Gino of fabricating and backdating a file intended to exonerate her”.
9 controversies · 17 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Great Barrington Declaration: call for 'quick and devastating published takedown', followed by regrets over overly narrow debate” and “'Proximal Origin': message seeking to 'put down' laboratory theory and accusations of suppressing debate”.
7 controversies · 13 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “1919–1933: Continued defence of chemical warfare, then exclusion by Nazi regime despite German patriotism” and “1918–1920: Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded despite outrage over his role in chemical warfare”.
7 controversies · 6 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “2023: California Planet Search co-authorship controversy and Marcy's voluntary withdrawal from future papers” and “National Academy of Sciences: membership rescinded for Code of Conduct violation”.
9 controversies · 8 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Personal Genome Project: attempted prioritisation of Epstein sample revealed in 2026” and “Colossal and 'dire wolves': scientific challenge to de-extinction claim”.
7 controversies · 11 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 8 controversies, including “2019–2025: King's College London deems a body of publications 'unsafe', recommends retractions and extends warning to work based on the same data” and “1952: Conclusion that evidence did not show psychotherapy facilitated recovery, sparking an enduring methodological debate”.
8 controversies · 6 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 6 controversies, including “1940s–1960s: Advocacy of water fluoridation alongside his role as nuclear toxicologist” and “1953–1957: Reported role in establishing links leading to Boston Project uranium injections”.
6 controversies · 7 sources
Violent crime and serial killersScience, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 11 controversies, including “Shipman Inquiry: at least 215 victims and possibility of an even higher total” and “Major reforms of death certification and medical oversight prompted by the case”.
11 controversies · 11 sources2 convictions2 formal charges
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 6 controversies, including “2014–2016: Obokata's supervised verification experiment and independent attempts fail to reproduce STAP phenomenon” and “2014–2015: verification failure, resignation from RIKEN and disciplinary finding that dismissal would have been justified”.
6 controversies · 11 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 10 controversies, including “2023–2026: repeated attempts to revive gene-editing career despite continuing ethical opposition” and “2022–2023: public return after imprisonment with gene therapy project met with scientific scepticism”.
10 controversies · 11 sources1 conviction1 formal charge
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 10 controversies, including “1912 onwards: Retouched photographs in The Kallikak Family — disputed allegation of visual manipulation” and “1920s onwards: Scientific criticism followed by Goddard's retreat from several earlier conclusions”.
10 controversies · 8 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 13 controversies, including “2014: Supreme Court upholds convictions and dismissal; separate controversy over US patent linked to fraudulent research” and “2010: appeal — convictions upheld, sentence reduced to 18 months suspended and one embezzlement charge dismissed”.
13 controversies · 10 sources1 conviction1 formal charge
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 8 controversies, including “2020: Western University officially condemns his scientific legacy as 'racist' and 'flawed'” and “1980s–2012: Substantial Pioneer Fund funding followed by presidency of the fund”.
8 controversies · 5 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Damore v. Google referred to arbitration, then closed by settlement and dismissal with prejudice” and “NLRB complaint against Google: adverse legal opinion followed by withdrawal”.
7 controversies · 10 sources
Business and billionairesScience, medicine and health
British inventor and entrepreneur, founder of the Dyson group.
10 controversies · 15 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 11 controversies, including “2019: Reasserts genetic link between race and intelligence — CSHL revokes remaining honorary titles” and “2014: Sells Nobel medal, claiming ostracism since 2007 race controversy”.
11 controversies · 16 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “2004–2014: University of Konstanz revokes doctorate for conduct considered unworthy; ten years of litigation end in final confirmation” and “2004: DFG withdraws several scientific rights and access to funding for eight years”.
9 controversies · 12 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 14 controversies, including “Termination or redirection of research on DEI, gender and health disparities” and “NIH grant terminations challenged in court as arbitrary and unlawful”.
14 controversies · 32 sources
Politics and governmentScience, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 10 controversies, including “1793–1795: Posthumous elevation to Jacobin martyr, followed by Thermidorian reaction and removal from Panthéon” and “1792–1793: Political war against Girondins and repeated accusations of treason”.
10 controversies · 4 sources1 formal charge
Science, medicine and healthArts, letters and intellectuals
Documented profile covering 10 controversies, including “Ukraine: theory of a war 'provoked' by NATO enlargement and open letter from Ukrainian economists” and “'The End of Poverty' documentary: producers sue Sachs over alleged breach of agreements”.
10 controversies · 16 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 6 controversies, including “CRISPR patent battle with Broad Institute: successive setbacks before US Patent Office” and “Numerous commercial ties in CRISPR ecosystem: debate over conflicts of interest in technology governance”.
6 controversies · 11 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “2020–July 2026: prolonged second wave of retractions — total reaches approximately 240” and “2000–2020: influence of HES research followed by retraction of reviews rendered unreliable by underlying retractions”.
9 controversies · 9 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “1987–2026: analysis of over 100 publications and enduring debate over co-authors, peer review and exact retraction count” and “1982–1983: NIH investigation finds extensive pattern of fabrication in Harvard research”.
7 controversies · 8 sources
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