I don't think Greg was totally off base, though I do think he could have been more restrained. Aditya was essentially spamming the reviewers with bad patches an

I don't think Greg was totally off base, though I do think he could have been more restrained. Aditya was essentially spamming the reviewers with bad patches and doing zero due diligence, including, significantly, not responding to anyone pointing out flaws in the commits[0]; he did get the benefit of the doubt at first and had the opportunity to clear things up. Ultimately though he was collateral damage of his advisor's involvement with the previous study. One of the risks of deception studies, especially if performed unethically or irresponsibly, is that loss of trust. Edit: While I don't think that suspicions or distrust were unreasonable, Leon's declaration that the commits were a direct continuation of the "hypocrite" research did escalate things unnecessarily[1]. I'm disappointed, though not surprised, by how many people--both commenters and tech news outlets--ran with that as the story at face value. [0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210407155031.GA1014852@redhat.com/ https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210407155031.GA1014852@redhat... https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/bd3c84bc-6ae0-63e9-61f2-5cf64a976531@gmail.com/ https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/bd3c84bc-6ae0-63e9-61f2-5cf64a9... https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210407153458.GA28924@fieldses.org/ https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210407153458.GA28924@fieldses... [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YH+zwQgBBGUJdiVK@unreal/ https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YH+zwQgBBGUJdiVK@unreal/