scientists announced in December that they may have seen hints of the elusive Higgs boson – the last undiscovered particle in the Standard Model of Physics.

, an engineer who helps maintain the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, where scientists announced in December that they may have seen hints of the elusive Higgs boson – the last undiscovered particle in the Standard Model of Physics. Tatsuhiko Kodama , a Japanese biologist who became a YouTube sensation after a rant in which he slammed the Japanese government for not accurately reporting the amount of radiation that had leaked from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in March.

, a Japanese biologist who became a YouTube sensation after a rant in which he slammed the Japanese government for not accurately reporting theamount of radiation that had leaked from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in March. John Rogers, an engineer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who won this year's $500,000 Lemelson–MIT award for innovation, after patenting dozens of inventions, some of which are being turned into commercial products such as flexible circuits and solar cells.

"It was really sloppy, rushed work with little care for the chemical purity of the materials they were using. They didn't purify the DNA properly. They jumped to all kinds of conclusions and ignored a whole bunch of red flags," Redfield said.

Redfield wrote a long post on her blog, RRResearch, outlining her concerns. The link spread across the internet, garnering tens of thousands of hits and dozens of comments from other scientists.

"Redfield kicked