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2. "About 15 years ago, I was hired to assistance with an inventory and appraisal of the vino postulation of a feline who lived successful the Caribbean and ran a slope there, specializing successful selling long-term, high-yield CDs. I went down and spent a week doing that and spending clip with him and immoderate of his precise fewer employees, nary of whom seemed to bash precise overmuch enactment astatine all. As soon arsenic I got back, I acceptable up Google alerts for the guy's sanction and Ponzi scheme."
"A period later, it started going off; he'd been indicted, assets frozen, fled successful his backstage jet, and yet got picked up astatine a inexpensive motel successful Canada.
A twelvemonth oregon truthful aft that, I got interviewed by the FBI, mostly questions to found who of his 'employees' I met and astir his manner (presumably to effort to marque a taxation fraud case, though they ended up conscionable getting him connected Ponzi charges)."
12. "Recently, I dated this guy. Right earlier we broke up, helium started acting odd. Distant. Less affectionate. He initially told maine helium was going done a batch mentally: issues with work, his car, his babe mama. He wanted to alteration his surviving situation. He was overwhelmed, but helium insisted that helium inactive perfectly adored maine and that I was an implicit angel and a changeless root of bid successful his life. Okay. Fine. He continued pulling back. My gut was telling maine thing was conscionable perfectly not right. There was thing missing."
"His babe mama blew him up astatine 1 point, and I overheard her accidental thing on the lines of, 'This is simply a betrayal of trust.' When questioned astir it, helium tried saying it was conscionable due to the fact that helium texted a pistillate friend, consoling her due to the fact that she mislaid her mom. My alarm bells were going off.
Why is your babe mama upset astir that? Why is that considered a betrayal of trust? There's nary mode this is conscionable her 'being crazy' due to the fact that this pistillate was perfectly good with america dating and has been thing but a sweetheart to me, but suddenly, she was up successful arms implicit him doing thing arsenic guiltless arsenic consoling a person who mislaid her mom.
Anyway, I yet asked him if things were truly good betwixt him and me. He tells maine that helium conscionable thinks things aren't unchangeable capable for him to person a relationship astatine the infinitesimal and that helium doesn't person the intelligence vigor to springiness maine the attraction I deserve. Fine. We permission it amicable and spell our abstracted ways.
I inactive had a feeling successful my stomach. Something wasn't right. Right earlier helium started acting weird, helium told maine that helium had wanted to beryllium with maine for a precise agelong time, that helium thought we were cleanable together, and that helium loved me. If you emotion idiosyncratic and you're that superior astir them, I'd deliberation that adjacent if you're going done pugnacious times, you'd thin connected them oregon privation them around, right?
Less than a period later, conjecture what? I recovered retired that the miss helium was consoling was so his caller girlfriend."
18. "There was idiosyncratic astir successful my PhD cohort who worked a fewer labs down the hallway from me. They ever seemed to get affirmative results with nary protocol troubleshooting, and the results were ever the benignant of happening that diary editors looked fondly upon. Somehow, this idiosyncratic was doubly arsenic productive arsenic adjacent the ace smart, 60-plus hr week working, originative grad students successful different labs. This idiosyncratic won beauteous overmuch each postgraduate and postdoc grant you could get and ended up a prof astatine a well-regarded assemblage with a immense startup grant."
"A twelvemonth into their module position, their erstwhile postdoc lab, upon being incapable to repetition immoderate experiments oregon physique connected the data, figured retired that the idiosyncratic had fabricated oregon fudged astatine slightest 60% of results that had been published successful top-tier journals.
We're talking outright fabrication, not conscionable a somewhat excessively contrast-enhanced micrograph oregon blot. They reported this to the backing agencies, and determination was a afloat investigation. They mislaid their grants, and the assemblage fired them.
It turns retired a akin happening happened erstwhile I talked to idiosyncratic successful the person's PhD lab. Some truly questionable Western blots had been overly processed and cropped successful ways that were decidedly misleading. At slightest 1 Master's pupil burned a twelvemonth trying to physique connected that enactment and got nowhere.
It turns retired that 1 of the aureate children of my PhD programme and idiosyncratic who was featured by backing agencies arsenic the adjacent large happening had built their technological vocation mostly connected lies, and it took 10 years for anyone to truly drawback on.
There are immoderate truly large scientists who conscionable hap to onshore connected fruitful projects, but nary 1 is that productive and fortunate each the time."
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