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Terrorism and violent extremismScience, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 21 controversies, including “Death in custody by suicide, according to Associated Press sources” and “Court-ordered sale of possessions for benefit of victims”.
21 controversies · 5 sources1 conviction1 formal charge
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 16 controversies, including “2022–2024: Swedish conviction progressively strengthened to three counts of aggravated assault, two years and six months in prison, followed by further retraction” and “2018: Karolinska finds him responsible for scientific misconduct in several synthetic trachea papers”.
16 controversies · 16 sources1 conviction1 formal charge
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 15 controversies, including “2005–2026: persistent promotion of a vaccine-autism link contrary to scientific consensus” and “2019–2026: visit to Samoa before measles outbreak — new documents contradicting testimony that the visit had 'nothing to do with vaccines'”.
15 controversies · 18 sources1 conviction1 formal charge
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“2024–2025: Continues vaccine activism through Protocol 7 film and statements challenging consensus” and “2016: Vaxxed withdrawn from Tribeca Film Festival programme”.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 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
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 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
Politics and governmentScience, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 13 controversies, including “US withdrawal from WHO: Criticism of COVID management and organisation's independence culminates in 2025–2026” and “Global pandemic agreement: Controversy over alleged surrender of sovereignty or new 'powers' for WHO”.
13 controversies · 28 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 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
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 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 11 controversies, including “Commissioner's National Priority Vouchers programme and concerns over political interference in drug reviews” and “Allegation that mifepristone safety review was postponed for political reasons”.
11 controversies · 24 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 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 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
Business and billionairesScience, medicine and health
British inventor and entrepreneur, founder of the Dyson group.
10 controversies · 15 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 10 controversies, including “2022–2024: College of Psychologists of Ontario orders professional coaching; legal challenges fail through Supreme Court” and “2022: Climate model remarks on Joe Rogan criticised as scientifically incorrect”.
10 controversies · 14 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 10 controversies, including “Anti-vaccine activism and extension of retroviral claims to autism and other diseases” and “False Claims Act lawsuit against WPI dismissed by federal court”.
10 controversies · 13 sources1 formal charge
Arts, letters and intellectualsScience, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 10 controversies, including “Departure from New York Times: Krugman denounces intrusive editing and pressure towards 'false balance', management disputes claims” and “2023: 'war on inflation is over' based on indicator excluding several major components”.
10 controversies · 17 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 10 controversies, including “Little Hans: Reassessment reveals underestimated trauma and family dysfunction” and “Gap between published psychoanalytic rules and actual practice: Confidentiality, neutrality and relationships outside therapy”.
10 controversies · 18 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 10 controversies, including “2026: Personal sales of approximately 17,000 ETH during major market downturn” and “2025: Ethereum Foundation governance crisis and Buterin says he still decides transitional leadership”.
10 controversies · 20 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 healthJustice, police and intelligence
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “DACA and Donald Trump: expanded executive power theory adopted by White House” and “José Padilla versus John Yoo: civil action dismissed on appeal under qualified immunity”.
9 controversies · 15 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Moral Foundations Theory: conceptual and methodological criticism of the definition of 'moral foundations'” and “Heterodox Academy: advocacy of ideological diversity accused of reinforcing conservative narrative about universities”.
9 controversies · 15 sources
Science, medicine and healthArts, letters and intellectuals
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Bitcoin: call to ban cryptocurrency” and “Greek referendum: public support for 'no' challenged by other leading economists”.
9 controversies · 17 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “2012: ORI publishes federal findings and three-year agreement imposes oversight and restrictions on PHS-funded activities” and “2007–2011: falsified results and methodology in Proceedings B experiment, followed by replication with complete data”.
9 controversies · 5 sources
Science, medicine and healthFilm, television and entertainment
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Co-author of federal memorandum reducing universally recommended childhood vaccinations” and “CMS leadership nomination: scrutiny of holdings and roles in healthcare companies potentially regulated by his agency”.
9 controversies · 14 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Theoretical calculation of '10,000 vaccines': figure repeatedly targeted by anti-vaccine critics” and “2025: criticism of changes to COVID recommendations for children and pregnant women without usual advisory process”.
9 controversies · 19 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “2008: exclusion from Nobel Prize awarded to Montagnier and Barré-Sinoussi — dispute over scientific credit” and “1994: royalties agreement revised after confirmation that US test used strain originating from French culture contamination”.
9 controversies · 11 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “2024–2026: claim that virus was 'engineered' and hypothesis of possible starting point in Chapel Hill” and “2023 testimony supporting laboratory leak hypothesis and claim of exclusion from early discussions”.
9 controversies · 19 sources
Science, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “'Rise up' call against Michigan restrictions and censure by Stanford Faculty Senate” and “Promotion of 'population immunity' strategy likened by critics to herd immunity”.
9 controversies · 13 sources
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 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 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 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 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 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
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