The Great Academic Heist

The Great Academic Heist
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The eternal academic food chain in action! Your brilliant physics breakthrough gets "borrowed" by someone else who slaps their name on it and—poof!—you're left with nothing but the satisfaction of seeing your work reposted with zero attribution. It's basically thermodynamics applied to intellectual property: energy transfers from you to them while your recognition approaches absolute zero! The universal constant of academia: conservation of credit never applies when you're the original creator!

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