Defamation suit demanding Elsevier retract paper heads closer to trial
A trial date has been set in a $1 billion defamation case against Elsevier that alleges the company published what plaintiffs say was a manipulated study about an air purifying technology over objections from peer reviewers. The case has already cost Elsevier a $10,000 sanction from a judge. Global Plasma Solutions (GPS), which makes air … Continue reading Defamation suit demanding Elsevier…
In a defamation lawsuit demanding the retraction of a paper, a $1 billion case against Elsevier has moved closer to trial. The suit alleges that Elsevier published a manipulated study about air purifying technology by Global Plasma Solutions (GPS), despite objections from peer reviewers. The case has already resulted in a $10,000 sanction from a judge against Elsevier.
GPS, which makes air quality products, filed the lawsuit in 2022 after Elsevier declined to retract a 2021 paper in Building and Environment about GPS's needlepoint bipolar ionization technology. The complaint claims Elsevier is responsible for the authors' alleged omission of data and misleading conclusions, which allegedly led to "massive" financial losses for GPS.
Elsevier has published "numerous articles that are not peer reviewed but that Elsevier advertises as 'peer reviewed'," according to GPS. A trial is set for December 7, 2025. GPS's CEO, Audwin Cash, stated the case aims to "remove a false scientific article that has misled the public about GPS’s technology."
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