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This is a remarkable fraudster/whistleblower pair:

> Their influential paper in BMC Medicine, and subsequent work based on Newmaster’s approach, found that many supplements lacked ingredients listed on their labels and that toxic contaminants tainted others. Some stores pulled products from their shelves, and several major supplement companies embraced Newmaster’s work, paying large sums for quality testing by companies Newmaster established just prior to the publication of the paper.

Damn, this guy didn't just defraud for the citations or clout or speaking or even consulting fees; he used it to kickstart his own business empire.

> Thompson, now a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, sparked the initial inquiry. As an undergraduate, he and Newmaster co-authored a 2014 paper on forest plant diversity, published in Biodiversity and Conservation. Years later, while completing his Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Thompson began to suspect that Newmaster had repurposed data from a different study by another student. He asked that the paper be retracted, and the journal did so in 2021.

And the guy who exposed him wasn't a spectator or a spurned rival, but an untenured academic who opted to torch one of his own early and well-cited papers on principle.