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Suspected sockpuppets



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Both are SPA for topics related to UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and writing advertisements about, and about work by Kristy M. Ainslie and colleagues - see also for example Acetalated dextran which cites a patent application by them and almost all the refs are from them. Similarly plenty of apparent SELFCITE refspam like this and this and this, adding another patent application by them. The master has tried to puff up the school article and apparently the sock was created to try again.

I woke up to the connection between the accounts due to this edit request by the sock, which contained an unsourced, off topic remark (see bolded part, emphasis added) They use drug delivery carriers such as nanoparticles, liposomes, micelles, stem cells, and adeno-associated virus to delivery therapies such as chemotherapeutics, vaccines (as noted by Kristy Ainslie), small interfering RNA, and immunotherapy to treat diseases like cancer, infectious diseases, and neurodegenerative diseases.. That led me to go look at Kristy Ainslie which was created by the master, and also edited by the sock.

See also the sense of humor in the master's first edit (note - some folks at the UNC school trained with that person) and note  the sense of humor in the sock's name.

The sock has defended the master's editing at COIN.

I tried to give them a chance to come clean here. No dice.

These are very likely the same person. This appears to be more academic self promotion with socking as we have seen before Mitscientist, Arifer, HRS395, etc. Jytdog (talk) 14:14, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

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✅, blocked and tagged. There is a slight chance they are meat, but I am tagging them as confirmed socks. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:24, 27 July 2018 (UTC)