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Re:Hundreds of academics at top UK universities accused of b... by ninja10 on Saturday September 29, 2018 @10:41AM (#18100606)
Career sabotage, IP theft?! That's terrible. If it was a regular job it may be easy to leave or find another one, but doing a degree, especially a PhD, is a serious commitment and a lifestyle change. Outside of this, the bullying behavior is common enough across everywhere ... put a person with serious ego and control issues in a power position and they will end up a tyrant.
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Re:Hundreds of academics at top UK universities accused of b... by posterboy on Saturday September 29, 2018 @11:02AM (#18100741)
The article doesn't talk about IP theft at all. It doesn't even imply taking advantage by superiors. It doesn't explore motives for the abuse at all.
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Re:Hundreds of academics at top UK universities accused of b... by colllectorof on Saturday September 29, 2018 @11:05AM (#18100761)
It does:

'Another PhD student spoke of “abuse of power” by their adviser, which included “career sabotage, IP [intellectual property] theft and more general bullying such as belittling comments, often in front of or in response to senior academics”.'

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