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He Rebuilt His Life-One Fake ID, Nine Years of Quiet Sabotage · Narcisist Psychology

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  Speaker 1: At four forty seven in the morning, a Road Greater
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  Speaker 1: operator named Ronda Weber was running her machine along Fenwick
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  Speaker 1: Mill Road when her headlights caught something in the mud
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  Speaker 1: beside the asphalt. She stopped. She climbed down. What she
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  Speaker 1: picked up was a university faculty ID card. The photograph
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  Speaker 1: showed a man in his early thirties. The name printed
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  Speaker 1: beneath it was doctor Eric Porter, but the card had
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  Speaker 1: two magnetic strips where there should only be one. Someone
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  Speaker 1: had rebuilt it. Rondo Weber had driven that stretch of
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  Speaker 1: road for eleven years. She knew what belonged there and
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  Speaker 1: what did not. She called the non emergency line at
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  Speaker 1: six oh four that morning, and the badge sat in
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  Speaker 1: a property queue for nineteen days before a forensic psychologist
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  Speaker 1: named Janet Bishop pulled it out and understood what she
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  Speaker 1: was looking at. That single object, a faculty ID card
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  Speaker 1: with a duplicate strip, discarded in the dark along a
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  Speaker 1: county road, would eventually unravel a scheme that had been
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  Speaker 1: running for nearly a decade, a scheme so precise, so patient,
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  Speaker 1: that its primary target had spent years assuming he was
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  Speaker 1: simply losing his mind. This is the story of doctor
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  Speaker 1: Eric Porter, and of the man who spent nine years
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  Speaker 1: dismantling his reality from the inside. Eric Porter arrived at
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  Speaker 1: Alderman University nine years before Ronda Weber found that badge.
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  Speaker 1: He was thirty one years old. He had just defended
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  Speaker 1: a dissertation on predictive modeling in cognitive load theory, and
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  Speaker 1: Alderman had recruited him specifically because his work was unusual,
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  Speaker 1: genuinely novel in a field where novelty is rare. Colleagues
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  Speaker 1: described him as methodical, trusting, the kind of researcher who
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  Speaker 1: color coded his draft folders and answered emails the same
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  Speaker 1: day they arrived. Every morning, without exception, Eric walked three
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  Speaker 1: mins miles before his first meeting. The route never changed.
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  Speaker 1: He always touched the stone wall of Hollow Tower with
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  Speaker 1: his left hand as he passed it. Not a superstition,
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  Speaker 1: just a rhythm. His neighbor, Frank Moody, a retired school
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  Speaker 1: principal of seventy three, noticed that Eric's Tuesday evenings were
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  Speaker 1: sacred chess dinner conversation. Frank would later say that Eric
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  Speaker 1: was the most consistently present person he knew, someone who
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  Speaker 1: showed up exactly when and where. He said he would
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  Speaker 1: that quality of predictability, it turns out, was something Ralph
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  Speaker 1: Rogers had noticed too. Rogers was forty six when he
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  Speaker 1: and Eric first met. He held the title Director of
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  Speaker 1: Academic Technology Services, a position that sat adjacent to faculty
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  Speaker 1: without belonging to it. He managed the university's digital infrastructure, servers,
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  Speaker 1: repository access, credential systems, the quiet machinery that keeps research moving.
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  Speaker 1: A colleague named doctor Wendy Cho described Rogers as aggressively competent.
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  Speaker 1: The phrase is precise. He did not charm people so
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  Speaker 1: much as overwhelm them with usefulness. Over the four months
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  Speaker 1: following their introduction, Rogers made himself indispensable to Eric. He
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  Speaker 1: attended department events he had no technical reason to attend.
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  Speaker 1: He solved small problems before Eric had fully articulated them.
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  Speaker 1: By February of that year, he had joined the Tuesday
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  Speaker 1: chess dinners at Frank Moody's house, welcomed by Eric and
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  Speaker 1: apparently at ease with both men immediately. Nothing about any
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  Speaker 1: of this appeared unusual at the time. What was not visible,
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  Speaker 1: what would only become visible years later through subpoenaed logs
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  Speaker 1: and forensic reconstruction, was that Rogers had done this before
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  Speaker 1: four positions at three institutions across fifteen years. At each one,
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  Speaker 1: a faculty member in a technical or scientific field had
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  Speaker 1: experienced what the records described as unexplained professional stagnation. Grants
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  Speaker 1: that never materialized, papers that seemed to vanish from consideration,
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  Speaker 1: colleagues who quietly overtook researchers who had once been ahead
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  Speaker 1: of them. None of it was investigated as a crime.
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  Speaker 1: Each institution processed it as an administrative irregularity and moved on.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Paul Strickland was a material scientist at one of
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  Speaker 1: those prior institutions. When a journalist reached him by phone
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  Speaker 1: years later, Strickland was forty four years old and running
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  Speaker 1: a hardware store. He said he had left academia because
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  Speaker 1: the work had simply stopped going anywhere he had always assumed.
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  Speaker 1: He said that he just was not as good as
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  Speaker 1: he had thought he was. That sentence would mean something
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  Speaker 1: very different. By the time Rogers's trial was over. Back
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  Speaker 1: at Alderman, Eric Porter had no reason to question the friendship.
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  Speaker 1: Rogers was helpful on the present, consistent. He understood the
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  Speaker 1: pressures of academic publishing in a way that most administrators
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  Speaker 1: did not, and when Eric began slowly then more noticeably,
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  Speaker 1: to feel that his research momentum was slipping, Rogers was
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  Speaker 1: always there to explain it. Parallel development was common. Rogers
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  Speaker 1: told him the field was simply moving fast. The self
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  Speaker 1: doubt that crept into Eric's work over the following years
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  Speaker 1: felt to Eric like his own. It was not his own.
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  Speaker 1: The self doubt that crept into Eric Porter's work felt
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  Speaker 1: to Eric like his own. It was not his own.
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  Speaker 1: The first anomalous image is small a time stamp. Eleven
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  Speaker 1: seventeen at night, on a Tuesday in Autumn, seven years
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  Speaker 1: before anyone found anything on Fenwick Mill Road, the university's
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  Speaker 1: digital repository logged in access to Eric's unpublished draft files.
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  Speaker 1: The credentials belonged to Ralph Rodgers, director of Academic tech
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  Speaker 1: Anology Services, with routine elevated access to faculty storage. One
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  Speaker 1: access late at night before a colloquium where Eric was
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  Speaker 1: scheduled to present. That single access would have meant nothing
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  Speaker 1: in isolation, but it was not isolated. Over the following
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  Speaker 1: five years, the repository logged seventeen instances, always Roger's credentials,
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  Speaker 1: always late Between eleven at night and two in the morning,
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  Speaker 1: always in the weeks before Eric had a presentation or
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  Speaker 1: submission deadline. Seventeen accesses, seventeen windows into unpublished work that
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  Speaker 1: Eric believed was private, and seventeen papers began appearing in
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  Speaker 1: the academic record under a different name. The name was THEO. Larkin,
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  Speaker 1: a graduate student well regarded serious about his research. Larkin
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  Speaker 1: had no idea where the foundational material in his papers
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  Speaker 1: had originated. Rogers had recruited him, godded him, framed the
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  Speaker 1: work as collaborative development. To Larkin, it was an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to anyone examining the repository logs against the publication dates.
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  Speaker 1: It was something else entirely. But here is the thing.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody examined those logs for years, because nobody knew they
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  Speaker 1: needed to. Eric raised his concerns twice. Both times he
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  Speaker 1: walked away reassured. The first conversation was with doctor Hugh Satterley,
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  Speaker 1: the department chair, who later recalled that Rogers had been
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  Speaker 1: present in the room. Rogers listened, carefully, nodded, and offered
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  Speaker 1: the explanation that parallel development was common in fast moving fields.
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  Speaker 1: The second conversation followed the same shape. Eric left the
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  Speaker 1: second meeting feeling, according to Saturly, genuinely comforted. Rogers had
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  Speaker 1: been present at that meeting too. Both times, the person
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  Speaker 1: Eric was describing sat in the room and helped explain
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  Speaker 1: why Eric was wrong to be concerned. There is a
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  Speaker 1: second image, which quieter than the time stamps, but harder
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  Speaker 1: to explain. A faculty ID card, specifically a replacement faculty
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  Speaker 1: ID card for doctor Eric Porter, processed through the campus
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  Speaker 1: card office by a part time staffer named Marcus Teal.
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  Speaker 1: Eric had not requested a replacement, his original card was
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  Speaker 1: in his wallet, where it had always been. The replacement
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  Speaker 1: was processed on a form that Teal later confirmed he
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  Speaker 1: could not verify had come from Eric directly that card
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  Speaker 1: began moving. Over three years, the Cognitive Science Buildings server
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  Speaker 1: room logged forty one after hours entry events attributed to
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  Speaker 1: Eric's card, forty one times that room was opened in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the night, and forty one times Eric
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  Speaker 1: Porter was somewhere else entirely, his walk logs and phone
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  Speaker 1: location data placing him at home or asleep, or on
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  Speaker 1: his three mile morning route past Hollow Tower. Someone with
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  Speaker 1: Eric's card was in that server room. Eric was not
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  Speaker 1: the financial thread was thinner but precise. Two consulting payments
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  Speaker 1: fees routed through a university vendor arrangement had been redirected
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  Speaker 1: to an LLC. The LLC had been established using Eric's
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  Speaker 1: name and a variant of his signature. Rogers had established it.
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  Speaker 1: The money never reached Erik. It reached an account he
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  Speaker 1: did not know existed, tied to paperwork he had never signed.
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  Speaker 1: By this point, Janet Bishop had six weeks and a
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  Speaker 1: stack of subpoenaed records. She had the repository logs. She
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  Speaker 1: had the card office documentation. She had the server room
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  Speaker 1: entries contradicted line by Eric's own movement data. She had
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  Speaker 1: the journal submission records e mails sent in Eric's name
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  Speaker 1: or through Roger's role as faculty liaison, withdrawing papers, resubmitting
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  Speaker 1: under Larkin, adjusting bylines in ways that left no visible fingerprint.
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  Speaker 1: Unless you had the out going mail logs from three
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  Speaker 1: different open access journals, all subpoened. She had the full
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  Speaker 1: shape of it. What she did not yet have was
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  Speaker 1: the moment that broke it open. First. That moment had
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  Speaker 1: happened in April, two months before Ronda Weber stopped her
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  Speaker 1: road Raider on Fenwick Mill Road. Frank Moody was seventy
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  Speaker 1: three years old, a retired school principal, and he played
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  Speaker 1: chess with Eric Porter on Tuesday evenings. He had watched
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  Speaker 1: Rogers come and go from Eric's life for years. He
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  Speaker 1: had watched Eric's confidence erode in ways that Frank could
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  Speaker 1: not quite name, but could not stop noticing. And in April,
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  Speaker 1: something Rogers said made Frank Moody reach into his shirt
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  Speaker 1: pocket and press record on his phone. The recording runs
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  Speaker 1: twelve minutes in it, Rogers tells Eric that the investigation
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  Speaker 1: the university has just opened a preliminary inquiry into publication irregularities,
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  Speaker 1: is being conducted by people who do not understand the
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  Speaker 1: technical complexity of Eric's field. Rogers tells Eric that the
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  Speaker 1: stress is clearly affecting his health. Rogers suggests that a
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  Speaker 1: medical leave would protect Eric's reputation while the situation resolves itself.
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  Speaker 1: Rogers recommends gently that Eric consider allowing THEO. Larkin to
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  Speaker 1: take formal authorship of the disputed papers, at least temporarily,
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  Speaker 1: to reduce the administrative burden on Eric while he recovers,
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  Speaker 1: and four times in twelve minutes, Rogers says I'm the
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  Speaker 1: only one who actually understands what you're dealing with. Not once,
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  Speaker 1: four times. Frank Moody gave the recording to Eric's physician.
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  Speaker 1: The physician gave it to the provost, The provost gave
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  Speaker 1: it to Janet Bishop, and within days of Rogers learning
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  Speaker 1: that an investigation had been formally opened, he drove to
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  Speaker 1: Fenwick Mill Road and discarded a box of materials from
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  Speaker 1: his car. What Rogers did not know, or perhaps didnay
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  Speaker 1: not considered, was that Ronda Webber drove that stretch of
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  Speaker 1: road every morning. She had driven it for eleven years.
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  Speaker 1: Picture what Rogers must have imagined. A back road before dawn,
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  Speaker 1: a box dropped at the shoulder, a problem disappearing into
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  Speaker 1: the dark Instead. At four forty seven in the morning,
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  Speaker 1: Weber's road greater swept through the area. She stopped. She
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  Speaker 1: got out. She found the badge, a Faculty ID card
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  Speaker 1: bearing two photographs where there should have been one. She
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  Speaker 1: called the non emergency line at six oh four. The
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  Speaker 1: badge sat in a queue for nineteen days before Janet
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  Speaker 1: Bishop pulled it. Two faces on one card, one of
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  Speaker 1: them belonged to Eric Porter, the other did not look
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  Speaker 1: like Eric at all. Now consider what that card meant
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  Speaker 1: in the context of what Bishop already had. The server
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  Speaker 1: room entries attributed to Eric, forty one of them, each
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  Speaker 1: contradicted by Eric's own location data, suddenly had a mechanism.
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  Speaker 1: Someone had been using a card with Eric's credentials and
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  Speaker 1: a different face. Someone had walked into that room, and
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  Speaker 1: the log said it was Eric, and it was not.
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  Speaker 1: The image that had looked like fraud looked like something
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  Speaker 1: more specific. Now it looked like systematic erasure. Each access
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  Speaker 1: built a paper record of Eric as the active user
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  Speaker 1: of his own research infrastructure at times when Eric was
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  Speaker 1: never there. If the scheme had run its course, that
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  Speaker 1: record would have remained Eric's name on after hours access logs.
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  Speaker 1: He could not explain a consulting LLC in his name.
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  Speaker 1: He had never operated papers in a graduate student's name
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  Speaker 1: that carried his ideas without his knowledge. And at the
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  Speaker 1: center of all of it, Rogers, present at every conversation
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  Speaker 1: where Eric raised concerns, present at every reassurance, the only
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  Speaker 1: person in Eric's professional life who consistently explained to Eric
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  Speaker 1: why his instincts were wrong. Picture Rogers in that server room.
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  Speaker 1: It is two in the morning. He uses a card
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  Speaker 1: that says Eric Porter, he accesses files that belonged to
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  Speaker 1: Eric Porter, he leaves. The log confirms that Eric Porter
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  Speaker 1: was there. It is not dramatic, It is administrative. That
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  Speaker 1: is exactly what makes it effective. One question remained for Bishop,
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  Speaker 1: for the DA and eventually for the jury. Had this
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  Speaker 1: been the plan from the beginning or had it evolved?
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  Speaker 1: Had Rogers chosen Eric Porter specifically, or had opportunity shaped
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  Speaker 1: the method. The answer came from the cell block, not
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  Speaker 1: from any document Bishop had subpoened. Rogers had been assigned
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  Speaker 1: to sell adjacent to Curtis Avery, an unrelated fraud defendant
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  Speaker 1: awaiting his own trial. Over four days, Rogers described the
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  Speaker 1: Alderman scheme in enough detail that Avery's attorney offered cooperation
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  Speaker 1: to the prosecution. What Rogers said in that cell block
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  Speaker 1: for filled in the one gap Bishop's records could not
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  Speaker 1: the internal logic of the scheme narrated by its architect.
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  Speaker 1: The records showed what had happened. Rogers in that cell
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  Speaker 1: explained why he believed it had worked. He was wrong
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  Speaker 1: about that, but the reasons he believed it had worked
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  Speaker 1: illuminate something that the logs alone cannot show. Rogers had
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  Speaker 1: not improvised. This the pattern across four positions at three institutions,
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  Speaker 1: each one involving a technical or scientific researcher, each one
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  Speaker 1: involving unexplained professional stagnation, was not coincidence and was not accident.
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  Speaker 1: It was a method, refined, patient, and designed to leave
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  Speaker 1: the target believing that the failure had come from within themselves.
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  Speaker 1: Paul Strickland had believed it. He had left academia at
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  Speaker 1: forty four, running a hardware store, certain only that his
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  Speaker 1: work had stopped going anywhere. Eric Porter had believed it
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  Speaker 1: for years. He had stopped submitting papers. Fourteen months before
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  Speaker 1: the badge appeared on Fenwick Mill Road. He had reduced
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  Speaker 1: his conference presentations. The self doubt had become indistinguishable from
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  Speaker 1: his own voice. That was not an accident. That was
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  Speaker 1: the design. The trial lasted eleven days. Rogers had walked
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  Speaker 1: into the proffer's session and confessed. Three days later, he recanted.
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  Speaker 1: The jury heard both things, the confession and the decision
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  Speaker 1: to take it back, and returned verdicts on nine counts
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  Speaker 1: wire fraud, identity fraud, theft of intellectual property. The recantation
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  Speaker 1: have not helped him. What a man says freely and
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  Speaker 1: then denies, saying tends to follow him into the deliberation room.
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  Speaker 1: THEO Larkin co operated fully with investigators, His papers were retracted,
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  Speaker 1: he was not charged. The record reflects that he had
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  Speaker 1: believed himself a legitimate collaborator throughout Rogers had never told
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  Speaker 1: him where the drafts originated. Larkin left Academia. Whether that
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  Speaker 1: departure was chosen or compared by the weight of what
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  Speaker 1: had been done in his name is not something the
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  Speaker 1: court record's answer Janet Bishops six weeks of reconstruction had
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  Speaker 1: surfaced something the DA had not initially anticipated. The financial layer.
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  Speaker 1: Two consulting payments redirected to an LLC Rogers had registered
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  Speaker 1: using a variant of Eric's signature and Eric's name, added
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  Speaker 1: federal wire fraud to what might otherwise have been a
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  Speaker 1: purely institutional matter. That detail the money is what transformed
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  Speaker 1: an administrative irregularity into a federal case. Without it, Rogers
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  Speaker 1: might have been processed the way his prior four targets
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  Speaker 1: had been processed as a personnel problem, a transition a
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  Speaker 1: file closed without charges. That distinction matters enormously. At three
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  Speaker 1: prior institutions, the same pattern had played out a technical
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  Speaker 1: or scientific faculty member, unexplained professional stagnation. Rogers moving on
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  Speaker 1: within a few years, and not one of those incidents
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  Speaker 1: had been investigated as a crime. They had been absorbed
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  Speaker 1: as ordinary friction, the kind of friction that academic institutions
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  Speaker 1: are very practiced at absorbing. Paul Strickland's name surfaced during
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  Speaker 1: Bishop's background work. He had been a material scientist. He
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  Speaker 1: was forty four when he was reached by phone, and
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  Speaker 1: had been running a hardware store for years. His comment
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  Speaker 1: that he had always assumed he simply was not as
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  Speaker 1: good as he had thought arrived in Bishop's notes as
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  Speaker 1: a single sentence. It carries more weight than almost anything
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  Speaker 1: else in the case file. It carries that weight because
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  Speaker 1: it is the intended outcome. Rogers had not designed a
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  Speaker 1: scheme to steal credit and then leave a trail of
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  Speaker 1: visibly damaged people behind him. He had designed a scheme
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  Speaker 1: to steal credit and leave people who believe they had
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  Speaker 1: simply stalled, People who internalized the failure as personal, people
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  Speaker 1: who did not look for another explanation because the most
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  Speaker 1: available explanation that their own abilities had not been sufficient,
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  Speaker 1: felt true. Eric had felt it for fourteen months before
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  Speaker 1: re rendez Eber stopped her road Greater on Fenwick Mill
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  Speaker 1: Road at four forty seven in the morning. Eric had
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  Speaker 1: not submitted a single paper. He had pulled back from conferences.
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  Speaker 1: The self doubt had had enough time to calcify into
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  Speaker 1: something that felt like self knowledge. Frank Moody seventy three,
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  Speaker 1: a retired principal who had spent a career watching how
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  Speaker 1: people speak to one another, had noticed. He had noticed
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  Speaker 1: the phrase not once, four times in twelve minutes. He
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  Speaker 1: had held his phone steady and let it record. That
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  Speaker 1: recording reached a physician. The physician escalated it. The provost
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  Speaker 1: contracted Janet Bishop Rogers, informed of the investigation, drove to
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  Speaker 1: Fenwick Mill Road, and threw a box of materials from
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  Speaker 1: his car into the dark. The badge landed in the
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  Speaker 1: mud and stayed there until morning. Eric Porter returned to
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  Speaker 1: Alderman University the following January. His papers were restored to
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  Speaker 1: the academic record. The work attributed where it had always belonged,
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  Speaker 1: Restored to the record. That phrase deserves a moment. The
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  Speaker 1: research existed, it had always existed. What had been taken
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  Speaker 1: was not the work itself, but the connection between the
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  Speaker 1: work and the person who had produced it. What Rogers
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  Speaker 1: had systematically dismantled was not Eric's output, but Eric's ability
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  Speaker 1: to recognize his own output as his. That is a
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  Speaker 1: precise and difficult thing to repair. A journal can reattach
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  Speaker 1: a name to a paper. It cannot reattach the fourteen
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  Speaker 1: months of silence, the withdrawn conference presentations, the point at
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  Speaker 1: which Eric's own doubt became indistinguishable from his own voice.
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  Speaker 1: Paul Strickland is still running the hardware store. The four
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  Speaker 1: prior incidents at three institutions over fifteen years were never reclassified.
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  Speaker 1: They remain in whatever administrative files still hold them, processed
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  Speaker 1: as personnel irregularities, closed without charges. The people at the
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  Speaker 1: center of those incidents were never formally identified as targets
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  Speaker 1: of anything. If they are alive and aware of the
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  Speaker 1: Rogers conviction, they received that information the same way anyone
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  Speaker 1: does from outside after the fact, with no official acknowledgment
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  Speaker 1: that what they experienced had an ad There is something
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  Speaker 1: specifically corrosive about a method designed to make its target
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  Speaker 1: the explanation for their own diminishment. The cruelty is structural.
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  Speaker 1: It does not require Rogers to be present in the
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  Speaker 1: room while the damage accumulates, it only requires that the
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  Speaker 1: target keep interpreting their own silence as evidence of their
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  Speaker 1: own limits. Frank Moody had known something was wrong before
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  Speaker 1: he could have articulated what it was. A seventy three
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  Speaker 1: year old man with a chessboard and a phone proved
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  Speaker 1: to be the hin the entire case turned on. Eric
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  Speaker 1: Porter walks three miles every morning. He still touches the
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: hollow tower wall with his left hand when he passes it.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: That detail is small, It matters anyway. Some things survive
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: what was done to them. This show is made by Obamedia.