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Reese Richardson
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INVESTIGATION: 🚨 A Polymarket exec used a personal PayPal account to pay major political influencers like Riley Gaines and Brian Krassenstein, who then hyped how "accurate" Polymarket is at predicting outcomes.
We uncovered $350,000+ flowing to influencers this way
www.politico.com/news/2026/06...
prediction markets doing press and paying people to make society trust they’re accurate, then giving someone the trump admin has hailed as a “journalist” a paid sponsorship post to cast doubt on elections is horrifying. prediction markets need to be made illegal immediately
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this line is now also apparently being employed for physical poster presentations. Unclear how recently this has started, but the hair under this sticker suggests a rather hasty application bsky.app/profile/poph...
this line is now also apparently being employed for physical poster presentations. Unclear how recently this has started, but the hair under this sticker suggests a rather hasty application bsky.app/profile/poph...
The company’s chief marketing officer, Matthew Modabber, used a personal PayPal account to send money to content creators, according to records reviewed by POLITICO.
Thermo Fisher now has a page up in response to our observations. They flatly deny that images were manipulated or fabricated while repeating that images were "optimized for presentation and clarity on the website", no lie, six times.
www.thermofisher.com/us/en/home/l...
Maya Kaufman
Reese Richardson
Reese Richardson
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www.thermofisher.com
The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes:
🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting
🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)
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Reese Richardson
"There is absolutely nothing to see here" seems hard to reconcile with the section title
"How will Thermo Fisher prevent this from happening again?".
Nick Brown
onion person
Thermo Fisher now has a page up in response to our observations. They flatly deny that images were manipulated or fabricated while repeating that images were "optimized for presentation and clarity on the website", no lie, six times.
www.thermofisher.com/us/en/home/l...
Reese Richardson
www.thermofisher.com
The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes:
🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting
🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)
Video
Reese Richardson
Spotted on a Thermo poster at #asms2026... Made me laugh
Spotted on a Thermo poster at #asms2026... Made me laugh
My lab on slack.... maybe we can ask for a bigger discount?
