"Slandering" would be spreading a potentially untrue assertion without evidence. Providing precisely the evidence you have, as OP did, is perfectly intellectua

"Slandering" would be spreading a potentially untrue assertion without evidence. Providing precisely the evidence you have, as OP did, is perfectly intellectually hygenic, and is not slandering. Anyway, my personal sense, as a former scientist, is that most journals have systematic problems.