I don't see that in many of my conversations with junior or senior faculty.
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There are edge cases where your family or friend could trick you into letting them in to your house and then steal your stuff.
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But that's not the usual offence. Edge cases are very important but thankfully rare.
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The important thing to realise is if another lab makes your science harder to do that's malicious behaviour for all intents and purposes.
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And so all my advice about staying away from them and so on applies. If you think another lab where on purpose or not will make your science
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that much harder to do, label it as malicious.
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Too early to be thinking about academic misconduct, need coffee!


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Also to be clear, if somebody is working on the same thing sees you're doing something similar and uses something you came up, a method
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an analysis anything that's more yours than common knowledge, and publishes it without telling you... That's scooping & certainly malicious.
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Even if their excuse is "sorry I forgot you came up with that"... Well, if they are indeed sorry they publish a correction stating as such!
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This is exactly that situation in which a preprint can only strengthen your argument and demonstrate to others you came up with it.
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IMHO this is one of the rarest ways people scoop. Needs so much data and experimental overlap for them to steal your method of idea.
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