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So one of the most difficult things that people go through in their life is when their

integrity is questioned.

When an opportunity or an unfortunate circumstance presents itself on whether or not people

are going to crumble or they're going to stand tall

for what they believe in. My guest today is one of those people. And when you get to learn more

about Rick and his story, you're going to understand why he thinks the way he does.

And the reason why he stood up for what he did in terms of the corruption that was taking place at Florida Tech.

But what I really want you to listen to is I want you to listen to the breadth of knowledge that he has in terms of understanding how human beings function,

what drives them from a neuroscience perspective, as well as what drives people to do certain

things psychologically.

So without further ado, Rick, welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. It's an honor to be here.

You know, obviously the easiest place to start would be to just, you know, give us a quick synopsis of what took place at Florida Tech

and how you got to the position you're in right now.

Sure.

So for the past five years, I've been a faculty member at, excuse me, at Florida Institute of Technology.

I've been a tenured professor of psychology. I'm a

neuroscientist and also affiliated in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. And so for the past

five years I've been there teaching, conducting research, winning NIH awards and grants,

publishing discoveries of the human brain behavior, all that kind of good stuff.

And through the course of events, I was basically made aware of the intention of our president

and a cabal of related faculty members to conspire to defraud the citizens and the governor of the state of Florida, as well as

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