Stellacci ‘stripy nanoparticle’ dispute heats up

Prof. Stellacci states: "I have undergone the most rigorous process that a scientific process can take and there has been a consensus answer. This is undeniable". There is not at all a consensus answer. Indeed, the remarkable aspect of this stripy 'saga' is that the work from 2013, far from supporting/vindicating the earlier results, actually shows up all of its flaws and clearly demonstrates that world-leading groups cannot reproduce the images of stripes obtained by Stellacci et al. in the period 2004 - 2012. We cover this in great detail in our paper and, as Raphael states in his comment (23 Jan 2014 10:25 AM), over at PubPeer. However, for those who haven't got the time to read through the minutiae of our technical critique, this short blog post shows how the data from 2013 in no way support/confirm the earlier results from Stellacci's group: http://raphazlab.wordpress.com/2013/11/14/the-emperors-new-stripes/