Comment by bogwog

> I haven't been able to find out what the 3 patches which the reference are, but the discussions on Greg's UMN Revert patch [2] does indicate that some of the fixes have indeed been merged to Stable and are actually Bogus.

That's because those are two separate incidents. The study which resulted in 3 patches was completed some time last year, but this new round of patches is something else.

It's not clear whether the patches are coming from the same professor/group, but it seems like the author of these bogus patches is a Phd student working with the professor who conducted that study last year. So there is at least one connection.

EDIT: also, those 3 patches were supposedly submitted using a fake email address according to the "clarification" document released after the paper was published. So they probably didn't use a @umn.edu email at all.