The editor got a strange letter from “Dr. B.S.” He wasn’t alone.

November 24, 2025

The lead author of a paper published in The New England Journal of Medicine got an odd letter from “Dr. B.S.” Soon, he discovered that other scientific journals were being flooded with similar missives.

A view of a mosquito through a microscope eyepiece.

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So he decided to find out who was behind them. →

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Old black-and-white photographs show members of a family in various settings.

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An illustration shows a person sitting in a train looking down at a phone, and the phone casting an eerie, photonegative light upward toward the person.

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