SCIENTIFIC-IMAGE SLEUTH FACES LEGAL ACTION FOR CRITICIZING PAPERS

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Around a week after its publication, Bik wrote a blogpost about the study, noting "many potential problems with the way the data and the peer review process were handled". 'Strategy of harassment' After learning about the criminal complaint, Lonni Besançon, a computer scientist at Monash University in Australia, and colleagues wrote an open letter in support of Bik (see go.nature.com/3g7e). A spokesperson for PubPeer told Nature: "A successful legal action could have a chilling effect on post-publication peer review.