Even if we did have citations, didn't we have an article about how academic fraud is a massive business, just yesterday, because academics are flawed humans just like the rest of us?
All the virtuous skeptics here would just be calling the study flawed.
Unreal to me that this submission got flagged to death, and that most of the comments are "these type of people don't exist." I encounter all of these people on a daily basis
Realistic fiction is still fiction!
> academic fraud
I would be content with just a statement like "these are real people I personally know (anonymized)."