The latest twist in the awful story of how one of the world’s most famous professors mounted a really bizarre, nasty personal attack on a PhD student. The professor even attacked the PhD student’s physical appearance, critiquing the student’s glasses & cat. Seriously.https://twitter.com/K_Sheldrick/status/1381093886760611842 …
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Ioannidis said good things about said student as well. The "appearance" stuff was merely used to describe how said student was initially trying to mask their Twitter identity, by first using a cat as their avatar and then changing it to a picture of themselves with glasses on
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Wait, what? I missed seeing Prof Ioannidis praise for and support of this student. Where is this praise? I did see a bizarre, ranty, mean paper in a peer-reviewed journal—one that Prof Ioannidis used to be editor of—attacking the student’s credentials, glasses, & cat. Horrid, no?
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From what I recall, his mean spirited statements were about another anonymous Twitter user, who is rather bellicose. Some took great offense to JI pointing out that the author of a competing paper was still a student. Seems a bit touchy to me.
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Whatever, Twitter denizen with default avatar.

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For one reason or another, the presumed author of Levin holds this Twitter denizen in very high regard, and will reference them from time to time on matters relating to science.
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That’s nice. I don’t care. 
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