Monday, July 13, 2020

Doctor Tries To Take Credit For Woman's Work, Pro Revenge Ensues


Taking yourself down to destroy someone else is true dedication to the art of pro revenge. It doesn't get much more ruthless than this. Dr. Trash messed with the wrong human being. 

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Text - r/ProRevenge u/LatinaCinderella • 15h + Join 1 3 1 Try to take the credit for something I wrote, let me destroy your academical credibility and get you fired. I used to be in what in my college we call "Seeder", an investigation group created by students that want to produce scientific articles (In this case, Psychology) and normally directede by a professor. I had just started college, didn't knew how things worked but thanks to a friend I was able to enter one of the most exclusive seed

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Text - This story is about Rebecca, the friend that helped me before. Like me, Rebecca was a psychology major, doing her final year of college and she was one of the lead investigators in the "crown project" of the seeder at the moment, a meta-analysis on conductual behavior therapy in schizophrenic patients around Latin- American. This sh*t was not easy, she had spent a year and a half working on it and when I joined the group it was already in its final stages.

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Text - Then the drama begun. Well, it had actually started mid-way project, when the first drafts were sent to the Publications Office. In my college, the publications office can be your best friend or your worst enemy as an investigator, and their "suggestions" are basically orders. Because the article dealt with a psychiatric pathology, they said it must have the support of our College's Meds-School Psychiatry Department. The head of the department, who I will call Dr. Trash, put the condition

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Text - It was kind of rude to force them to include some random guy, but in the end she and her group. accepted. Enter Julian, the human incarnation of laziness. In a team of 5 individuals (Rebecca, Julian and 3 other psychology students) Julian barely did any job and whatever he made, had to be checked and corrected by one of the others. Sometimes Rebecca doubted he even knew what the article was about from some of his comments. Fast forward again to the finish line of the project. It was basic

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Text - With the project already done, he refused to approve it unless those credited as main authors where himself (reasonable to a point, department heads were always considered main investigators), our seeder director and Julian. The others could only put their name as investigation assistants on the " Acknowledgement" section. This was a total slap in the face. Even when she tried to argue that she was the one that designed the project in the first place and that Julian did the minimum, the m

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Text - correct him and let the others drown while he was praised. In her last peaceful attempt, Rebecca asked why they could not put the names of all as authors and Dr. Trash said that a bunch of unknown student names would only rest credibility to the thing and refused the proposal. Lastly, he said that they could accept his terms, or quit the project and live him total control of the article. You may be thinking this is impossible, this man is literally stealing the work from another person. S

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Text - That's when Rebecca decided to go full suicide bomber. When she told her friends of her idea, warning them it would be the best if they leaved the project before things escalated, they decided to stay and help her. The plan was to sabotage the article by modifying the statistical analysis they had made previously, basically the core of it allI. The conclusion you got with the new results was the same as before, but anyone who read the thing thoroughly and checked the sources would see the

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Text - subtlety that Dr. Trash would not notice it when he corrected other parts of the text. They were extremely lucky he never checked the statistical component, partly because that was the seeders director responsibility and he had already given them the thumbs up. Finally, the article was completed, and the work was sent to the Publications Office. Then it was just waiting until it finally made boom. About a month after summiting the project, all the implicated where cited to a meeting with

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Text - And that is when Dr. Trash saw he had condemned himself. Because Rebecca and the others were just "assistants", it meant that most of the responsibility was on himself and the other main authors. Blaming the students would give away the fact that they were way more involved in the process, admitting he had taken away the credit and that he had not checked the paper properly. In the end, he didn't have to decide how he wanted to be hanged, because the seeder director spilled the beans in o

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Text - 1. The office started an investigation on Dr. Trash articles and those he sponsored, finding he had done this way too many times. He was fired after the news spread around and as far as we know, he has not done any more publishing in indexed literature because no serious magazine will accept his submissions. 2. Because of all the drama, Rebecca's article was deemed too compromised by personal interests and was not accepted for publishing. So that year's hard work went directly to the tras

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Text - Thanks for reading guy, sorry for the long post. PD: Rebecca gave me permission to post this TL,DR: Doctor and resident accomplice tried to take credit for a paper my friend wrote, so she sabotaged the article triggering a disciplinary intervention that resulted in the doctor's firing and the end of his academical reputation.

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