More on Lesley Stahl and Xyleco

Back on 7 Jan 2019, IPBiz posted on some bad reporting by Lesley Stahl:
Lesley Stahl "at it" again in sad piece on biotech, Marshall Medoff, Xyleco

See also a post on 11 Jan 2019
60 minutes promotes biomass scam including text


Medoff’s company, Xyleco, has also garnered hundreds of millions of dollars from investors impressed with his inventive use of accelerators. Sixty minutes describes this as his “novel idea of using these large blue machines called electron accelerators to break apart nature’s chokehold on the valuable sugars inside plant life – or biomass”.

But wait! There are thousands of research papers going back as far as Imamura (1972) about using electron accelerators to break down lignocellulosic biomass. This is done to create more surface area for the next step, in Xyleco’s case, enzymes to break down the cellulose further. Other ways biomass can be shattered are milling, chipping, shredding, grinding, and pyrolysis.

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Xyleco isn’t yet in business, so it remains to be seen if the founder’s name ought to be Madoff rather than Medeff.