My work plagiarized by doctors, department heads, and scientists….
Not long ago, I found huge portions of my work plagiarized by the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) — of which I am a professional member. The NSCA published their “Position Stand on Androgen and Human Growth Hormone Use,” (which they’re against), and as you will see, starting on page s8, continuing half way down s10 (two and a half pages) is a compilation of my work, the stuff I did for my first book, presented in chart format, concerning various anabolic steroids. This is the paper in question: Position_Stand_on_Androgen_and_Human_Growth.1 .
I know it’s my work, because even the typos and mathematical errors are the same. You can check out Steroid.com or my first book to see what I’m talking about, but that entire chart is cribbed from my work. It took me months to do that research, and they copied it, down to my own personal thoughts and recommendations on “Effective dose” for both men and women. Where I didn’t know something, and put in a “?” they put the same thing. Clearly, they didn’t do any original research for this (large) section of their paper…they just copied me. It was weird to see my ideas on effective and ideal dosing for anabolic steroids being used in a paper taking a stand against their use in athletics.
It was even weirder to see my work being blatantly used by scientists, doctors, and department heads who were claiming it to be their own research —typos and all.
In this case, the primary author of the paper happens to be the Chair of the Department of Health and Exercise Science at The
College of New Jersey, as well as the sports science advisor to Major League Baseball Strength Coaches, who is assisting them in devel-
oping a steroid education program for baseball. Also listed as authors on the paper were various other department heads, and some very prestigious universities: Boston University, West Virginia University, University of Virginia, University of Connecticut, and more. I have nothing against any of these people, and I’ve referenced their work in my own before. But that’s the difference…I gave them credit when I used their work, and it wasn’t a two-way street. I’ll also be perfectly frank and say that I believe they used a lot of online references (probably Brian Haycock, William Llewellyn, and a few others) and didn’t give the other authors a shout-out.
There aren’t a ton of errors in the paper, but there are enough (probably half a dozen) and they’re embarrassing (*hint: read the part about Winstrol on page 11 being non-C17 Methylated as the injectable form). Without being offensive, there are several of basic errors in the paper…had they consulted me instead of just stealing from me, I could have helped them avoid this.
I dropped an email to the lead author. No reply. I called. No reply. I called the editor of the magazine. No reply. See the pattern?
I called the NSCA, and finally got someone on the phone, and told him of an oversight concerning two and a half pages of my work showing up in their published article, unreferenced and un-cited. First I was told that it wasn’t my work, I had to prove it was my work (uhhmmm…try explaining how my typos just “happened” to be their typos also!) and that some intern (who they couldn’t remember) had put the charts in.Either you wrote the paper or you didn’t, and you put the charts in or you didn’t, but claiming you didn’t know where they came from is f*cking idiotic.
I can only wonder what would happen if a student in one of these authors’ classes had turned in a paper with several pages copy/pasted from an uncited source, and passed it off as their own original research….I’m guessing the student would fail the course.
Eventually, I was told the “oversight” would be corrected —which I suppose it was, because today I received the latest issue of the NSCA Journal, wherein they credited (are you ready?) not me, not the book, not any of the sources or citations we spoke on the phone about, but the website they (*originally claimed not to have) found the information on.
Are they F*cking kidding? I hate to be a total d!ck about this, but in the end, my name didn’t even make it into the “correction” they published this month.They had their chance to resolve this quietly, and they just couldn’t handle giving me credit where it was due…I was silent until now, but they’ve had their chance and they blew it. I have no idea why they decided to go this route, and I personally like a couple of the authors, but this has nothing to do with me liking them or not, it’s got to do with them properly giving me credit for what I’ve written.
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