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I would strongly recommend that neither you nor other members take gossip on faith and repeat it here without demanding some shred of factual evidence to justify it.  Searcher, for example, has accused me here of 'ambition and commercial interest'.

It's only libel if it's not true.

Personally, if someone called me ambitious, I'd say, "Yeah, you're right. I'm ambitious." If they called me mercantile, I'd laugh and say, "Yeah, I'm a business owner, I'm mercantile by definition."

The important thing is whether it gets in the way of one's objectivity while doing research.