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Here at the Riddled Experimental Ethics Laboratory (purveyors of the finest, freshest informed consent), naturally we follow the exploits of Dr Alexander Seifalian. As Chair of the Board of Trustees at OA Publishing London,
Alexander Marcus Seifalian is a Professor of Nanotechnology and Regenerative Medicine, and Director of UCL Centre for Nanotechnology & Regenerative Medicine at University College London (UCL-CNRM).
NO WAIT the OAPL website has been stuck in a time-warp since late 2014 (it is an entertaining and edifying institution in its own right, as described by Neuroskeptic). It has not been updated to reflect the changes in Seifalian's employment status since the Macchiarini scandal, with all the dead patients... this cast unwelcome light upon the whole artificial-organ nanotech-scaffolding area, and his financial irregularities made it convenient for UCL to use him as an ablative heat-shield for the protection of other faculty members.

So here he is again, at the centre of the Scientific Committee of a Global Summit & Expo, vertically compressed (as is the custom), as if the entire committee had been recruited from the inhabitants of a heavy-gravity planet.


Time spent at the website finds the designer observing all the stylistic conventions that we have learned to expect from the hypertextual genre, such as sex-chatline pop-ups that obscure half the text, a pastel-hued shite logo seemingly intended for a Generic Baseball Cap, a contact address that's a virtual office in San Francisco, and the random rolling graphics that are state-of-the-art in Hyderabad web-design.

The scamference perpetrator has chosen a company name "Linkin Science" that suggests an affiliation with LinkedIn without actually claiming one.* So far there are only six Global Summits in the franchise, at two locations, so attendees at the Nanotech Expo will find themselves sharing facilities at the Grand Excelsior Hotel with the Global Cancer Meet and the World Vaccine Summit. Not to forget any antivax loons who are motivated enough to take their flying picket-line to Dubai.

All that makes Linkin Science worth mentioning is the fact that they are not yet another polyp extruded from the OMICS scampire, but rather some goombah wannabee in Hyderabad operating out of his spare room in Flat #203. Abhiram Sathyadurga is abreast with trends in contemporary grifting, and he has purchased a twitbot to circulate bot-chat about the promising appearance and sterling reputation of each upcoming scamboree.
This may be an innovation in the scamference industry. As is bot-chat about eating cheeses and cooked meat, while repeating our opinion because it wants us to like it.

Academic citation style requires link to Oglaf

* Alternative explanation: the company name is a homage to an alt-metal-lite band.

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