How To Deal With Idea Theft: Academics, PhDs, and Scientists That Steal Intellectual Ideas

A follower asks: “I am a phd student and I am sick of people stealing my ideas. They pretend to be friends and they asked about my ideas, and copied it how to deal with these people.” Everyone has their ideas “stolen” at one point in academia. Why does academic theft happen? There is a tremendous amount of uncertainty in academia, and some people take advantage of that uncertainty because boundaries are not well set. What is happening is not necessarily that you’re upset about the idea, but you’re upset about the violation of your boundaries and you are more upset that somebody else would possibly do that. Your reaction to this violation of boundaries probably should be proportional to how much effort you’ve already put into the idea. 1. If it is simply just an idea and you haven’t worked that much on it, take it as a form of flattery. 2. If you have a full-fledged paper, try to only disclose with people that you trust. 3. If it’s a paper that