On this reality-based show, host Peter Graves screens videos taken by graduate students and FBI agents of senior scientists creatively abusing and humiliating the lesser beings that they're forced to work with. Computer-generated black bars cover perpetrators' eyes to ensure their anonymity and to keep you guessing. Watch as a distinguished anthropologist presenting a paper at a scientific meeting is repeatedly interrupted and then shouted down by a rival in the audience. Chuckle as a leading biologist shreds his hair, insults his secretary, and plots revenge upon learning the identity of a peer reviewer who trashed his latest research submission. Here's a psychology postdoctoral candidate who got more than she bargained for when presenting her research to the tenured toughs at a major university.
Grainy footage shows a nervous-looking young woman stepping to the lectern in a small auditorium.
She adjusts her glasses warily and looks out at a modest gathering of grad students and professors. With a quiver in her voice, she begins to explain her research project. Several senior researchers have staked out the front row. Arms folded, the big shots whisper among themselves and laugh loudly as the presentation proceeds. The perp stretches, looks back at the audience with a smirk, and stands up to deliver a question.