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"This platform has been widely used by Elisabeth Bik, a biologist with a scientific background who has a self-proclaimed "fraud hunter" whose funding for this activity is totally obscure and is close to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (9). She recently confessed in an interview (10) , she was a victim of face blindness also call prosopagnosia, a condition link to autism in 36% of cases (11) and which may have serious psychosocial consequences. She said his brain has the uncanny ability to spot retouched or doctored images in a fraction of a second. She explains that his neurons, by a strange mechanism, launch themselves in search of repetitive patterns, replicated angles, points or similar lines scattered throughout the pages. She manages to spot copy-paste even when an academic has taken care to flip the original image or edit it in Photoshop (10). "Before, I thought everyone was like me...". “I only recently realized that I had some kind of special ability. ». This donation will push her to flush out scientific fraud using the PubPeer platform."
Didier Raoult now published a 'preprint' claiming I am 'close' to Gates Foundation - citing a France Soir article as the reference.
He also suggests that my poor facial recognition skills are linked to autism, with 'serious psychosocial consequences'.
What a sad man.
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