/shillgate/ - ShillGate

The original reason for looking into Dr. Xu is in pic related.

Old, old fag posted that the network he was a part of spammed the fuck out of the internet in order to push a false news story.

The story was that Dr. Xu should be nominated for a Nobel Prize for a revolutionary discovery.

As with all good disinformation and misinformation there is a strong element of truth hyped way above its actual worth.

Old, old fag directed us towards a story on The Scientist.

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/34705/title/Snubbed-for-a-Nobel-/

And in the comments section you can clearly see people with a low post count commenting. The negative, anti-Nobel responses are generally from commenters who have obviously joined solely to comment on this story.

What makes this particular article fairly unique is that it doesn't just regurgitate the original press release (will cover that in the next post).

Instead it is a genuine piece of journalism where the author has solicited comments from relevant persons. Notable scientists and The Nobel Committee themselves. Overall it is fairly critical of Dr. Xu. And rightly so.

There has also been shilling on other social networks. Obviously Reddit as Zoe mentions that in the emails (see pic related again), but also on Twitter.

That shilling is for the main investigation.

A quick overview of the story:

Dr. Xu is a Chinese scientist who has spent his career working on burn treatments. His work is based heavily on Chinese herbal medicine. One of his claims is that the moist exposed burn treatment (MEBT) and moist exposed burn ointment (MEBO) he has developed is capable of returning damaged skin cells to a pluripotent state. In a very loose sense making them stem cells. And he claims that he made this discovery well over a decade ago.

In 2012, The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent.

Apparently someone was butthurt about this. A lawsuit was filed in California against The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet.

The lawsuit was filed by Ardent Law Group on behalf of Dr. Rongxiang Xu (The Plaintiff). And after the lawsuit had been filed Dr. Xu's PR wizards went into effortless overdrive flooding the web with the press release they created.

I will cover the lawsuit in the next post.

There are two main Mebo sites. Mebo.cn and Mebo-International.com. Respectively, the Chinese site and the US site. The US site was taken down (pic related) and replaced with the image in the OP when people started sniffing around. It may be very poor damage control. It may be hackers doing it for teh lulz. Or he may be dead, but I doubt it. Given the amount of PR bullshit he generated just from being butthurt, you'd expect a much larger PR cloud if he died and you'd expect press releases, real obituaries and, in true Mebo style, something you can spread everywhere as delicious copypasta. What we actually have is a jpg sliced up for the web that conveniently won't be picked up by search engines.

Unfortunately for Dr Xu's son, taking the site down didn't make anyone's job any more difficult. You can still get to everything including files about the lawsuits because the whole site is in google cache. All you have to do is search for:

inurl:mebo-international.com

Here is the lawsuit filed against Dr Yamanaka as an example:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:pMXGpx5O8V8J:www.mebo-international.com/sites/default/files/lawsuit_yamanaka_051313.pdf+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk

Rather ironically, the best link to demonstrate the prevalence of PRNewswire as the source of the stories in the press is on mebo.cn. Dr. Xu has compiled pretty much all of them for us. As it's all in Chinese moon runes, you may want to run that through Google translate:

http://www.mebo.cn/nobel/index.html (If the option doesn't appear, copy and paste into Google. It should be the first hit and the option to translate will be there).

Follow a few. You'll see what I mean. This is some pretty prolific propagation.

And so we move on to the PR firms as we need to get them out of the way. They are what is relevant to the main investigation. They were most likely hired by Kevin Xu and almost everything seems to wind up with his name at the end of it in regards to all things MEBO and Xu.

So, Dr Xu's Amerifat PR wizards …

At the bottom of every press release we are told that if we want more info we should contact:

Jane Westgate. 336-209-9276 jane@westgatecom.com and Cheryl Riley. 703-683-1798 cherylrileypr@comcast.com

Cheryl first then:

Cheryl Riley

www.cherylrileypr.com

Cheryl Riley Public Relations

Old Town Alexandria VA 22314

o: 703-683-1798

c: 202-285-4222

e: cherylrileypr@comcast.net

https://twitter.com/cherylrileypr

She's been involved in filing other frivolous lawsuits such as:

http://www.bloomberg.com/article/2004-07-02/anQV7IfH2seI.html

And pleeeenty more:

http://myneeek.com/docs/cherylrileypr

I'm guessing it was her idea to sue the Nobel Assembly.

From her crappy website:

By acting as a broker between her clients and reporters, Cheryl excels in the ability to facilitate a lasting connection between the two. Being able to correlate these issues to real-life business problems facing large corporations is often key in securing interviews for clients, resulting in numerous success stories.

Cheryl’s forte is in creating "Experts" for national and local commentary, and making clients "the go to sources" which helps propel any client into the mainstream media mix, ensuring exposure and credibility.

In one particular press release, Cheryl's email is given as cheryl@westgatecom.com which would seem to indicate that at one time she worked for Jane. She's a lone wolf now though and judging from the state of her website, she's not amazingly web savvy. So she was probably the one creating the hype. The creative writer. The other landwhale was spread it about.

And now the meaty one:

Jane Welch Westgate:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/janewelchwestgate

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Westgate-Communications-Inc/112686442152290

Phone: 01-336-608-4439

Email: Jane@westgatecom.com

Website: www.westgatecom.com

Address

Roland S and Jane Westgate

7624 Penland Dr.,

Clemmons,

North Carolina 27012

3 children:

Alex, Collin and Rachel

From Westgatecommunications.com team page:

Westgate Integrated Network (WIN)

More than 100 Integrated Marketing Members have joined the Westgate Nationwide Network (WNN). These members represent expertise in corporate communications, public relations, social media marketing, copy writing, investor relations, research and business writing services. Members are on call to work on client projects when workloads increase. All members have been vetted and have more than 10 years’ experience working with top brands across multiple industries. The Westgate Network has workers in both US and International time zones. Westgate also offers paid Internship programs where college students studying communications can learn, contribute and be mentored by experienced communications professionals.

*Hints towards the sort of network Old, oldfag referred to and the sort of people in said network.*

Interesting point, go to the team page and hover over the other three employees (I have yet to investigate the other two). Check out the names they link to.

Oh yeah, she's a Cosmic Fucking Sister. K?

http://zoehelene.com/cosmic-sister-jane-westgate/

DO NOT CONFUSE WITH:

www.westgatecomms.com

Westgate is a PR and Marketing company based in Kent (UK)

We don't really need to dig that deep on her personally. There's plenty out there on her to be found. We should focus on the network. Not here though. That's for the main investigation. That network almost certainly contained Zoe Platek and that's how this is linked to her. Everything beyond that now is not relevant to the main investigation. It's just interesting. The PR cloud around Dr Xu was created by these two women. And they were hired almost certainly by Kevin Xu. Everything comes back to Kevin Xu.

If this is just a ruse, they've gone to very extreme lengths. Let's get back to Dr. Xu. He's not dead, by the way. He was at dinner with family and colleagues. His family and colleagues hold medical qualifications. You're going to tell me a 57 yr old man choked to death in a restaurant in Los Angeles surrounded by fucking doctors who didn't know how to perform the Heimlich Manoeuvre? GTFO

So, back to mebo … Did you know they have a youtube channel? Ya rly. It's here:

https://www.youtube.com/user/MEBOInternational

Videos were last posted a year ago, first posted two years ago. Before that the videos were hosted on a Chinese site. They are still linked from Dr Xu's blog, but if you click one, they no longer exist.

Let's look at some of the sites first of all.

Mebo-international. Whatever you read about MEBT/MEBO or Dr. Rongxiang Xu, you're going to find yourself being linked right back to this fucking site. And the second we started looking at it, it fucking disappeared. I have a theory about that. It can wait.

So a domain lookup provides us with the IP it's hosted on: 67.201.63.90 - 2 other sites hosted on this server:

regeneration2013.com which redirects to the other site which is regeneration2014.com

Y u no register regeneration2015, Kevin?

Actually, Kevin has won a few awards for those websites. You should check it out. Have a play. It's pretty good. The animation is done by Hoax Movies. They're quite a big deal. He must have money. Protip: He's fucking loaded.

Regeneration2014.com is a virtual tour of a hypothetical something or other that blah blah his father's work blah blah regenerative medicine … hype. Pretty though. Did I mention his dad can regrow damaged fingers including the fucking bones? Maybe I'll cover that later.

The other companies associated with the Xu family are hosted elsewhere. Most of them are chinese sites hosted in Beijing.There's a few of them:

http://chinaburn.org/

http://en.mebo.com/

http://mebo-stph.com/

http://mebo.cn/

http://mebogic.com/

http://skingenixweb.com/

http://video.mebo.cn/

http://www.bjmebo.com/

http://www.chinaburn.com/

http://www.chinaburn.org/

http://www.imebo.com/

http://www.life300.com/

http://www.mebo-stph.com/

http://www.mebo.cn/

http://www.mebo.com/

http://www.mebo.com.cn/

http://www.mebogic.com/

http://www.shmebo.com/

http://www.skingenixweb.com/

http://www.xianrentang.com/

http://www.xn--3bsx3iw22bmot.com/

http://www.xrtclub.com/

http://www.xurongxiang.com/

http://www.zsfykx.com/

http://zhuanti.mebo.cn/

That's a lot to go through. Not worth covering it now. I will occasionally be referring to a couple of the chinese sites in other posts. Let's talk about Kevin.

Kevin's pretty well connected for a young fella. He's the CEO of three companies and he sits on the Asian Advisory Board at USC Davis School of Gerontology. You can read about another wonderful money making scheme and his wife here:

https://news.usc.edu/71405/young-entrepreneurs-receive-support-to-help-older-adults/

Kevin's Linkdn

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/kevin-xu/48/b48/374

Kevin Xu

CEO, MEBO international

Greater Los Angeles AreaPharmaceuticals

Current

MEBO INTERNATIONAL, Skingenix, Inc., Regeneration X Foundation

Education

University of Southern California

His Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/regenxu/info?tab=page_info

https://ideamensch.com/kevin-xu/

Kevin Peng Xu is the CEO of MEBO International, a California and Beijing based intellectual property Management Company responsible for managing “Human Body Regenerative Restoration Science” (HBRRS). CEO of Skingenix, California based Company exclusively working on drug development in the field of damaged organ regeneration. Founder of MEBO campus, a virtual educational platform for organ regeneration science. He is a member of the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an appointee of the California-China Trade and Investment Advisory Group, and the founder of the Regeneration X Foundation, a non-profit organization focusing on providing support for the establishment of in situ regenerative life science and related educational systems and research collaboration. Kevin serves on the board of the Asian Advisory Board of the USC Davis School of gerontology and earned his BA in neuroscience at USC. He is a contributing author for Wired and Business Insider.

Regeneration X Foundation: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:uf96SZ2moFMJ:www.mebo-international.com/provision

The Regeneration X Foundation is an extension of Kevin Xu’s desire to educate people about the regenerative capabilities of the human body and to support scientific research that help improve the quality of life for people everywhere.

And there's some more rambling crap about it there. TBH, I haven't really looked into the Regeneration X Foundation yet. It doesn't look that interesting.

Skingenix has a website here:

Skingenixweb.com

That's an interesting venture. There's very little mention of Kevin or his father. It appears to be an attempt to do things properly and above board. They have employees who are properly qualified and are engaged in clinical trials of MEBT/MEBO which would produce the perr-reviewed results that currently don't exist and would get MEBT/MEBO past the FDA and allow them to be marketed properly in the US. There are some interesting points to make regarding Skingenix which I'll put in a later post.

There is a huge online presence. This will do for now. A lot of the PR bullshittery surrounding MEBO in the US centres around the Nobel farce and his father. And it happened a while ago. It's sort of fizzling out. Some of it only recently died down in the last few months, but generally 2012/13 were the busiest times. It's been suggested that this whole thing is a datamining exercise. That they put this shit out there and see who looks into it and assess technical competency and other shit. If that's the case, they did that over a year ago. Whoever the fuck "they" are. It's my opinion that Kevin is attempting to fly straight and has learned his lesson from the whole Nobel shit-flinging episode. He's still not flying absolutely straight though.

Oh yeah, forgot the important bit:

Kevin lives here:

Address

505 Los Altos Ave

Arcadia, CA 91007-8335

http://www.whitepages.com/name/Kevin-Xu/Arcadia-CA/ay8hdkp

Phone: (626) 446-6235 (That's associated with Li Li Xiang Xu at the same address)

http://california.zattadata.com/5527443.html

Li Li will feature in a later post. The saga continues tomorrow with tales of patent trolling, immigration, awards and the man himself.

B R E A K I N G N E W S

Dr Xu is kill part2: Electric Boogaloo

That same shitty obituary from the mebo-international.com site has found its way to the mebo.cn site. However, unlike the US site, they haven't deleted everything. After a short while it proceeds to the index.html. And there's a nice button to press at the bottom of the obituary too. That will take you to this page:

http://www.chinaburn.com/guest/index.php

It's a very poorly written guestbook. You may leave a nice message. Yes you may. In fact, you should. Something like:

Wu Songbo Posted 2015-04-24 21:19:46:

Cause death before victory, often makes the British exploration of male tears garments, Xu, all the way, Mabel who will inherit your behest, to explore along the cornerstone of science, the human body regenerative restoration science to flourish for the benefit of the common people! You are the pride of the Chinese nation, your love will live forever in the hearts of every one of our employees and patients, may you rest in peace in heaven.

This is not a massive shillfest at all. Is it? Noooo. 512 messages and counting.

We should all take a moment to remember Dr. Rongxiang Xu. Taken from us under the cruellest of circumstances. He died amongst people with the ability to save him and not one of them raised a finger to help him. Goodnight, sweet prince.

This stops nothing. Even if they take down the mebo.cn site or any of the others, they're in google cache. Nothing of value will be lost. Not even Dr. Xu himself.

>implying there was anything there of value in the first place.

What's more interesting now is that they've taken the lie to China. Nowhere in the death records for the last two weeks in California is Dr. Xu mentioned. In fact, nobody whose surname starts with Xu died in that time. I've checked. Nobody has mentioned his death anywhere. Except these two sites and rather than do it with a press release and disseminate it across the system of tubes, they made a jpg in paint and sliced it with a pirated copy of Macromedia fireworks from 2004. That's because the hired web professionals and PR teams aren't on the case.

Of course, the images may not turn up in searches, but guestbook entries could. This just raises more questions about what they have to hide. A much better move would be to abandon the sites altogether. This is some full retard right here.

Normal service will be resumed shortly.

Let's look at some awards next. Here's the list of awards Dr. Xu has won:

Taken from: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:USUbpq23JZwJ:www.mebo-international.com/about-us/biography-rongxiang-xu

Awards

The Sixth American Humanitarian Award (by National Burn Victim Foundation)

Pan Arab Hero Awards for Medical Science

National Third Top Ten Outstanding Youth Awards for Science and Technology Innovation in China

National Fourth Top Ten Elites Award in Science and Technology in China

UN Prize for Science and Peace

Third Donation Award in China

Notable by their absence are two awards. Two awards which he won since the US operation started and both were very widely publicised. I'll get to those in a separate post.

It's not easy to search for corroborating evidence of these awards for a couple of reasons. Firstly, they were all won in countries who don't use our language or alphabet. Secondly they go back quite a long way. For example, The UN Prize for Science and Peace brings back no hits. It doesn't exist. Or it no longer exists. However, on Dr. Xu's blog we see a larger list of awards:

http://translate.google.com/translate?depth=1&hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=http://blog.sina.com.cn/lm/z/xurongxiang/index.html

· Major Awards

1. The King of Thailand, the Government awarded the "best doctor" title

2. obtain a government subsidy certificate issued by the State Council

3. obtained from the United States issued a "Charity Award"

4. obtained from the United Nations International Science and Peace Week Organizing Committee, I presented "International Science and Peace Award"

5. obtained from the Central Committee, the Ministry of Science, the National Youth Federation awarded the "China Outstanding Youth Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Award"

6. by the pan-Arab international scientific conference presented the "Arab Hero Award"

7. Access to the Ministry of Civil Affairs issued a "Donations Award" "

8. "National Top Ten Technology Excellence Award"

9. won the "China Top Ten Wise People Special Award"

Bear in mind that these have gone through Google Translate so they may not be exact. The character(s) for Mebo are translated as Mabel. There's no reason to doubt he won these. It's more than likely that herbal based medicines and treatments are popular in China and Dr. Xu most likely has been to other countries to help with efforts in disasters. He gives us his history in one of his blogs:

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=2&hl=en&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=zh-CN&u=http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4fdcde6f010085je.html

Rather than go into each one in any depth, let's just say that some of the awards are probably not quite as prestigious as they sound. It's one thing to say you have a UN Prize for Science and Peace and quite another to say:

1993, the United Nations International Science and Peace Week Organizing Committee awarded me a "International Science and Peace Contribution Award"

We have no idea how big a deal the UN International Science and Peace Week was or what his contribution was. We do know how long it lasted though. Meh. An award is an award. Good for him. Let's move on because the real juice is in the other two awards and, frankly, those two cast a shadow on all the others regardless of how prestigious or deserved they were.

This, from the link above is a bit lulzy:

2001, the China Association President's office for some large Chinese scientists complain to form summary of my academic research conducted scientific certainty and protection.

In 2002, the National Science and Technology held a clone of my organs science hearings.

2002, President of the International Society of Traumatic hereby to Beijing, invited me to learn under the chairmanship of the next, I was declined!

2002, Scientific American magazine News reporter about three days to get an interview with the opportunity to hold the scientific journal accreditation visit one day (from morning half past nine), the People's Daily published an interview recorded all live, but not promised him to visit a secret experiment room, the reporter wrote a lengthy report called me - China's Xu R. factors, did not give him the scientific journal published in the United States, he is a popular science magazine, called me a "nationalist", the article will be my Beijing office described as the hotel I was in a dark corridor of the office building, despite the Chinese government research funding will Xu R. nationalists such use, do not give people the returnees support scientific research funding. At the same time and a domestic joint report on me demeaning sarcasm, saying the interview was inadvertently encountered. China then deputy editor of the Los Angeles Times interview with me, to see my work and know that I am in the China's top ten buildings at their own expense after researchers reported their ludicrous.

He has his detractors back home as well.

The two awards we can look into aren't mentioned in his lists, but were highly publicised. That's because he had PR firms boosting his profile and public image. Again, you'll see PRNewswire all over the place and:

Contact:

Jane Westgate: 336-209-9276, Jane@westgatecom.com

Cheryl Riley: 703-683-1798, cherylrileypr@comcast.net

SOURCE Mebo International

Big surprise.

The first is sort of key to the second. The first was almost certainly gamed. I have some relevant experience of this so I know how this works. You'll have to take my word for that.

In 2013, Dr. Xu won The Golden Biatec Award from The Informal Economic Forum (IEF) - Economic Club located in Slovakia. This award is somewhat hyped as a very prestigious award with previous winners such as Vladimir Putin, George W Bush and Jaques Chirac. Let's see what the wikipedos made of it … They deleted the article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Golden_Biatec_Award

And here we see the first instance of evidence of a PR job. Well, the second instance. Google "Golden Biatec Award" and see what the result is. Anyway, in the

From the above link:

I find this of very low notability, as does seem the rest of the world. The rewards have been given to e.g. George W. Bush, Vladimir Putin and Jacques Chirac, but that has apparently not been met by world news coverage (nor is it of interest to Wikipedia to link from these articles to this article). This appears to be the result of paid editing, and not necessarily because this is an article that meets our inclusion standards. Dirk Beetstra T C 03:43, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

Paid editing? I hope you can back that up! Oh wait, there's a link:

http://www.writejobs.info/2013/09/wikipedia-page-creator-editor-wanted.html

Well, fuck!

18 September 2013

Wikipedia Page Creator / Editor wanted | freelance, home-based | pay: $150 flat rate | Slovakian Economic Award

We are seeking a wikipedia editor for a one-time gig. The information we supply should stick and is verifiable. The subject is a Slovakian Economic Award (similar to the Nobel Prize). Please NOTE page needs to be up by 5 pm on Thursday September 19.

We are doing all of the writing (we'll include the correct footnotes as well), and you will be responsible for:

Creation of page and posting of the body copy and its 8-9 references/stories

Outbound linking through Wikipedia to seven existing Wiki pages (George W. Bush, Vladimir Putin, Muhammad Yunus, M. Kovacs - former president of Slovakia, Country: Slovakia, City: Bratislava, Newspaper: Hospodarske Noviny)

Posting pre-written edits w/ one reference (all same source) on four pages (Yunus, Bush, Putin, M. Kovacs)

Inserting two tables: 1) Header with main information about award (website/country/awarding institute/first awarded) and 2) 29 previous International Laureates

QUALIFICATIONS:

Previous experience editing Wikipedia and creating pages (Please include pages that you've contributed and send the URL of your Wikipedia portfolio)

A clear understating of Wikipedia tags, hyper-linking and references. Provide our page the best chance of avoiding the deletion process.

Existing Wikipedia Account: preferred

Please apply with cover letter and previous experience ONLY if you have significant verifiable experience as a Wikipedia editor.

Looking for: Wikipedia Page Creator / Editor

Location: Remote

Compensation: $150

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Questions/ applications: 9nf7m-4074497168@gigs.craigslist.org

Why would it need to be up by the 19th? Because that's when the winner would be announced and the winner of the 2013 award was? Dr. Rongxiang Xu. And why would they need a wiki article? Because no fucker outside Slovakia has heard of the award. It's not notable or newsworthy. And Craigslist? Isn't that American? There is a translated version of the wiki article into fucking Esperanto (!) here:

http://epo.wikitrans.net/Golden_Biatec_Award

Notice the article was deleted in 2014. So it was there when he won. I don't think we'd have any trouble working out who was behind that craigslist email. That'll be either Cheryl or Jane.

Let's look at what happened next and something amusing in the next post. Pic related:

That pic! Is that Times Square? What the fuck did happen next?

I was going to post links to the IEF page and the presentation video stream, but they're not necessary. They exist. It happened. And then the PR machine went balls to the wall getting the story out there. If you did the google search for the award, you'll have seen how apeshit they went. Again, Dr. Xu has saved me a lot of time by collecting all the links together and posting them in one place along with the 5 minute video of his acceptance:

http://www.mebo.com/a/zt/2013/1021/5119.html

Notice in the video the person on the right hand side. That's Kevin. Hi Kev! Not in the audience, but right up there with his dad. I won't bore you with how you game an award. I can't prove it happened anyway. Suffice to say that a good PR guru can canvas an award and with the right presentation give their client a better than average chance of winning. The award was presented in LA via a live video conference with the ceremony in wherever the fuck it was held. Oh, one other thing, you can take some liberties when you're reporting to sources who may not be too knowledgeable about other countries.

The Mebo sites (Chinese and US) reported that the award ceremony was broadcast in Times Square. And to prove it added photoshopped pics of Times Square to their articles. Do a Google image search for Dr Xu Times Square (pic related). There's a fine line between hype and lying. They crossed it. Several times.

Here's the thing though. That last pic wasn't the Golden Biatec Award ceremony. Because that's not the only time he's featured on billboards in Times Square. Oh no. He's been featured no less than seven times. Really. It says so here:

http://en.mebo.com/Article/ShowInfo.asp?InfoID=1158 - 7th time

http://en.mebo.com/Article/ShowInfo.asp?InfoID=1156 - 6th time

http://en.mebo.com/Article/ShowInfo.asp?InfoID=1128 - 5th time - no pic

http://en.mebo.com/Article/ShowInfo.asp?InfoID=1108 - 4th time

http://en.mebo.com/Article/ShowInfo.asp?InfoID=1091 - 3rd time

http://en.mebo.com/Article/ShowInfo.asp?InfoID=1057 - 2nd time

http://en.mebo.com/Article/ShowInfo.asp?InfoID=1031 - 1st time (accompanied by a claim that "The Square reported Prof. Xu Rongxiang who is the inventor of Human Body Regenerative Restoration Science as well as the owner of patented technology to regenerate damage organs that was included in Obama’s 2013 State of Union Address." … LOLWUT?)

It's taking the fucking piss.

And they pull the same stunt on mebo-international.com (because they obviously think Americans are gullible enough to believe this shit):

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:nhfIjU8q2qwJ:www.mebo-international.com/article/reuters-reported-once-again-news-rongxiang-xu-billboard-new-york-time-square

Here he is winning his Golden Biatec. Except he isn't. Where did that blue background come from? We've seen the fucking video:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:VAzdZKNsRykJ:www.mebo-international.com/article/dr-rongxiang-xu-reported-time-square-billboard-winning-golden-biatec-award

And an interesting piece of writing from a document titled ```Notice to Human Body Regenerative RestorationScience Club Members (II)```:

3. International right protection and concerns In October 2012, the Committee of Nobel Prize awarded Nobel Prize to a Japanese Scientist creating man-made “Pluripotent”cells with the cause of Prof. RongxiangXu’sinventive and patented scientific direction of somatic cells being induced into pluripotent stem cells and physiologically regenerating tissues and organs in situ, which forced us to internationally disclose the infringing upon intellectual property and the behavior of stealing the fame and cheating the world and Prof. Rongxiang Xu regained the right of speach on scientific invention through the lawsuit. Reuters continued reporting the news for seven times and published news pictures of Prof. Rongxiang Xu’s invention of PCRs physiologically regenerating tissues and organs on the big billboard at Time Square in New York, US ( Figure 11) and we will continue using the inventive patents to crack down on the illegal behavior.

I'd bet the total number of times he's been on that billboard is closer to fuck all than seven.

So, I thin we're all agreed that Dr. Xu is not beyond telling a few lies. This sort of publicity goes a long way. And it seems that this sort of behaviour is the norm. Notice the LA County Scroll Award was also publicised as being broadcast in Times Square. As if anyone in New York gives a flying fuck about two chinese guys receiving an insignificant award in California. That's up next.

The LA County Scroll Award. Prestigious enough to warrant broadcasting in Times Square. Or is it? Is it fuck! Another award that was difficult to track down. Have a go.

Thanks to a job I had a while ago, I happen to have a huge database of awards from across the world. This wasn't in there. Neither was The Golden Biatec Award. Odd. And I know how to research awards. I've struggled with all of them except the Biatec, but that wasn't hard. This one doesn't exist as it's named. So I searched on the name of the guy who awarded it. And it turns out a few of these scrolls are handed out. See pic related. That's a group of kids who won a fucking Robot Wars competition in St. Louis. They hand these things out like candy.

http://www.team399.org/laco-board-of-supervisors-meeting-2013/

Do a google image search for:

Michael D Antonovich Scroll

Scroll through the results (pun not intended). There's a ton of them. For all sorts of things. Just visiting Los Angeles will do it if your status is high enough. Strangely, for such a prestigious award and one which was broadcast all the way over on the other side of the States, it isn't mentioned on his website at all. Even google cache can't find it. But it's all over the fucking news sites courtesy of PRNewswire, Cheryl and Jane. And whilst we're on the subject of bullshitting and Jane … let's return to Xu's blog again and have a look at something.

If we start highlighting every single piece of bullshit that the Xu's have out there, I'll be here forever, but there's one thing worth looking at briefly here:

http://blog.sina.com.cn/rongxiangxu

That's Dr. Xu's blog again. Let's look at that second blog (pic related):

The Title is translated by Google as:

US President Barack Obama meeting with US president Mabel Xu Peng line

A better translation would be: US President Barack Obama meeting with MEBO CEO Xu Peng

Xu Peng is, of course, Kevin Peng Xu. The article doesn't translate well. I think the gist of it is that Obama has announced something about regenerative medicine and Kev's there to pledge support or something. It's hard to make out exactly what it's saying. It could be hyping something again like Kev's there to help implement his Dad's regenerative technologies in science course and within national policy. Chances are he's not there for anything close to that. Who cares? We know they exaggerate the fuck out of stuff. Look at that pic. Who's the third person there? It's fucking Jane Westgate. And where Cosmic Girl Jane turns up, bullshit will follow. That, my friends, is a fact. Kev is there because she got him there and I bet it was more likely be more to do with his work at USC Davis than about MEBO.

And in another blog there's a christmas card from the Whitehouse to Li Li Xiang Xu. That name's going to come up again in another post.

Ok, I'm pretty much done with the PR bollocks. Next up will be patents. Anyone can get one. Dr. Xu has quite a few. He's very proud of them. He really owns them too, but that's not worth discussing. There's a better story out there, but it'll have to wait because it's late and I'm tired. It involves Dr. Yamanaka of Nobel Prize fame and the source of butthurt to the point of buttsuicide for Dr. Xu.