The Perfect Crime - Scientific Fraud in America

This is the story of the largest scandal ever in criminology, alleged fraud, anonymous whistleblowers and more. It took me the 4 months to uncover, getting all the sources and records requests in from FSU as well as fact-checking the material in this piece. It changed the way I look at fraud and I hope you find it as incredible of a story as I did.


Music:
Martin Fowler - 1426
Martin Fowler - Ships XII
Dresden the Flamingo - Walkin the Dog
Christopher Walken - Falls
The Night Train - Silver Screen

Shownotes:

[lga]

"We've investigated ourselves and found that we have done nothing wrong."

[DarkDragon]

Student: **accidentally plagiarize** life gets ruined

Professor: **commits fraud** this is ok

[redandblue]

UPDATE: As of 2023, Stewart was fired. The investigation was restarted in 2020 according to the Daily Mail, perhaps even because of this video..?

[mbt]

As a grad student, this story rings too true.

This happens way too often because of the pressure of publishing relevant matter. Sad.

[surrealentertainment]

Can't imagine the time it took to put this video together. Really interesting and entertaining, well done man!

[amelliamendel]

I investigated myself and after very careful deliberation I found myself to be innocent.

[allanmonroe]

Oh wow. I was not expecting a baby-faced Coffeezilla. Nice to see he's been doing good work since the beginning.

[AussieMoneyMan]

This stuff happens everyday everywhere. I've witnessed it first hand twice. The world is corrupt unfortunately.

[sburgos]

I studied Neuropsych under an amazing professor who forever changed the way I view the world. She would bring in a series of published studies and tasked us with finding inconsistencies and whether the conclusions drawn were actually proven by the data. I was amazed at how many published studies we found to be flawed. She also highlighted for us the replication crisis. I am reminded of her teachings whenever I hear a student of soft science declare with absolute certainty that some study proves X. The scariest part to me is that you have sociology majors attempting to mold society based on completely biased nonsense. I consider the corruption of science to be the most detrimental to human progress.

[markomak]

We really need new videos like this one, especially in the light of the Stanford and Harvard scandals

[sarar]

My dumbass put this on for background noise and kept thinking 'he sounds like coffeezilla' then I looked and was shocked 😭

[landon]

Last time I was this early, telephone poll response rates were 21%

[harshsingh]

I think just like auditors in commerce, there should be authorities totally separated from these colleges and institution to check on the cases of frauds like these.

[jglaab]

"wow this coffee break channel seems interest- WAIT IS THAT COFFEE ZILLA???"

[Ana-wxjm]

And to think I got into trouble for "plagiarising" my own lab report because I had copy pasted descriptive statements like " the above table describes blah blah..." from my previous lab report because both experiments were pretty similar!!

[Donmegamuffin]

As a post-graduate research student, stuff like this makes my blood boil

[CompressionPolice]

"Research fraud is rare"
Yeah I'd like to think that too, but there's no good way to be sure about that.

[Luumus]

For those who would like an update on this, Eric Stewart was fired from Florida University as of July 2023 due to “extreme negligence and incompetence.". Retraction watch has an article on it, in case you want to dig a bit deeper

[elliottre]

I ran into this problem in the academic community back in 1968 . It has been going on for a long time and continues . Don't make waves . It's their way or the highway .

[Iwatoda_Dorm]

The Perfect Crime = Thief is given Gold from the bank because the bank didn't want anyone to know it was getting robbed. _Outside organizations also say it's legal to do so._