Prominent professors occasionally have defects of personality which cause them to behave towards their students in ways which are unethical and unacceptable scientifically. This short autobiographical piece recounts some such behaviours experienced by the author at the hands of Sir Cyril Burt, at the time probably the most prominent British psychologist.
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