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Videos of therapy sessions were being edited to make it seem like patients were progressing when in fact they were performing worse than baseline. A wealthy family from another country with poor english, was in tears when they saw the video of her child's "progression". They were instructed to keep practicing the therapy techniques at home.

The next week the mother confided in me that she felt she was failing as the child wasn't progressing and broke down in tears saying what a good service we are performing. I didn't have the heart to tell her that we weren't doing anything put becoming a paper mill.

I had one of the top jobs in my field for medical research.

Once I got there I worked 12-15 hour days for several months. By the 4th-5th month, I noticed that there were several things completely fraudulent ranging from (but not limited to): falsification of records, manipulation of data to achieve favorable results, intentional misapplication of government funding, illegal subject testing, unapproved testing of studies.

By the 7th month, my boss started to realize I wasn't going with the flow, and initiated steps to start to limit my data access and alienate me from others.

One of the employees whom I trusted, hanged out with, and genuinely liked, called me and asked if we could get lunch the next day. He informed me this was clearly by the request of the director, in order to find out what I know. He seemed very distraught over the phone about the whole process, so I figured I wouldn't put him in a bind (and wouldn't reveal anything either) and told him it was ok.

He showed up the next day and revealed to me the data they were deleting, the documents they were forging (I was already terminated by this point), and such - which actually shed more light on things I didn't know about.

I made the mistake of telling him of some of the things I knew, and how I knew the computer team could retrieve deleted data, and he broke down and cried. He said he had to report the next day to the director and "Would not tell him any of this" and seemed pretty resolute in that. He also said he would call me the next day.

I never heard back from him.

It's very tough to say because all my contact with everyone was cut off... completely. I do however feel it was worth it, as it was completely unethical to what they were doing and they were inculcating young minds to perform research in a completely improper way.

I am fed bits and pieces from two friends of mine who are no longer employed there either, who assure me things have changed a bit (funding has been completely suspended, all projects were stopped) - but I do not know how long those changes will last. There was three concurrent investigations which spouted from my one interview initially, along with 2 of my friends later corroborating a lot of what transpired by stepping up as well... which was very brave of them as they had more on the line then I did.

Thank you, this may sound cliche, but I don't consider myself brave. I had to take anti anxiety meds for the first time in my life and seek therapy. This is on top of several people with many years experience warning me what would happen next - and how to combat it.

All I did was listen to what they said and fight every urge in my body which told me to give up.