On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 8:28 AM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You are saying, in effect, that a professor is deliberately destroying his > own reputation, in a way that will certainly be discovered, with no > possible benefit or profit. This seems unlikely to me. > > > I don't think there is risk to his modest reputation. He can plausibly deny any complicity in the deception, and simply say he assumed the input power was ok. As for possible benefits, those would be harder to discover, but it's not hard to imagine what they might be.
