[tiwil]

 
But this kind of research is nonsense,since there are various people and no control groups,etc.And they could simply starting a new project with code issues and asking for a peer review,not by harming a existing project,as people basically have a good faith of kindness and they won't actually review every piece of code modified.

Absolutely. It's nonsense but also alarming us. They do research about insecurities over open source and it seems they are successful since we see that their questionable commit get approved and paper is going out.

What we can conclude here is: There might be a case someone is actually do this for bad things, and get their commit approved. We should think again about this possibilities. What do you guys think?