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Subject: Student Looking for an Academic Expert in Help of Restoring His Looted Research
Category: Relationships and Society
Asked by: jimmyred-ga
List Price: $20.00
Posted: 28 May 2005 18:55 PDT
Expires: 27 Jun 2005 18:55 PDT
Question ID: 526789
I am a university student involved in a dispute concerning
intellectual theft of an original idea and a research design developed
by me. A senior researcher has apparently stolen my intellectual
property and is currently running experiments making use of my
original idea and design (Henceforth: "the stolen research").

My research idea and design are easy to describe, and I have full
evidence of the materials used in the stolen research. Moreover, the
research CV of this researcher is easy to obtain and indexed in
databases and the like.

For answer be complete, I need:
1. A name of an expert in the field of cognitive sciences or
psychology with a PhD degree.
2. That this expert will be able to compare my idea and design to the
ones used in the stolen research, with respect to the CV of the
researcher conducting this accroachment.
3. That this expert will be willing to write down his professional
opinion in a written statement to the relevant authority resolving
this dispute.
4. As this issue is fundamental and not monetary in nature, this
expert should agree to use make this job for a symbolic price.

Thanks a lot in advance!
Jimmy
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Subject: Re: Student Looking for an Academic Expert in Help of Restoring His Looted Research
From: pinkfreud-ga on 28 May 2005 19:43 PDT
 
Unless you can find someone connected to a personal friend or family
member, I doubt that you will find anyone with the credentials you
seek who will work for "a symbolic price." A person who has expertise
in this sort of thing is likely to demand a substantial fee.
Subject: Re: Student Looking for an Academic Expert in Help of Restoring His Looted Resea
From: andrewxmp-ga on 28 May 2005 22:07 PDT
 
I would agree with pinkfreud.  If you would like to contact
appropriate people yourself, I would gladly post an answer listing a
substantial number of professors of cognitive science (and contact
info), to whom you could send a letter or something.  Would that be
alright?
Subject: Re: Student Looking for an Academic Expert in Help of Restoring His Looted Research
From: jimmyred-ga on 29 May 2005 01:33 PDT
 
Dear pinkfreud and Andrew,

I have many friends that can do this job for nothing. In fact, anyone
in the academy will do it for nothing given this is a relatively
simple issue to determine if two theories are similar or different and
the like (as I specified above). The expertise needed is in research
methods and using casual psychological databases. Every PhD graduate
of Psychology or Cognitive Sciences is supposed to be able to do that.

My problem is not locating those people. That's trivial. My problem is
that I leave outside of the US, and our academy business is small, so
while serious people agree with me concerning this issue - none of
them is interested in "facing" this researcher by giving his/her
written opinion.

In the US things are different - 99.9% of the people never heard of
this researcher and are therefore 'politically neutral'. I am looking
for someone with IDEOLOGY, who wants to promote ethics in
psychological research. Again, the issue is fundamental. Someone with
ideology in this will spend half an hour for a symbolic fee (or
volunteering) for his opinion. That's the one I'm looking for and
therefore need your kind help.
Subject: Re: Student Looking for an Academic Expert in Help of Restoring His Looted Resea
From: amber00-ga on 29 May 2005 15:50 PDT
 
If you are a university student then you could invoke your
university's procedure for making an official complaint (perhaps under
anti-plagiariam rules; perhaps on unfair practice, or conduct likely
to bring the university into disrepute etc).
You might read your university's rules about complaining. Also consult
you Student Union for advice on formulating the complaint.  And you
could try summarising the complaint and sending it to the researcher's
professional body. I imagine that s/he is a member of the British
Psychological Society or a similar American (or other national) body.
If all else fails, you could try interesting the  press. In the Uk the
Times Higher Educational Supplement would be a possible newspaper. But
be very sure of your case. There are libel laws.

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