Villarroel is asking a question with a checkable answer: name a second case where a scientist's coauthors were professionally punished by association. If there's a precedent, someone should produce the citation. We've looked at a lot of consequence patterns in this ecosystem. This mechanism is unusual. [Quoted] I am often asked what motivated the decision by certain astronomers to exclude me from conferences. The common explanation has been my collaboration with exoplanet pioneer G. Marcy and...