Prof. Daniel Reyes · “The Ethicist”
The Ethicist
Profile
A tenured ethicist whose independent replication threatens to show that Empathol does not merely raise trust — it steers it toward institutions. Tenure makes him hard to fire, so the work is starved instead: grant rejections, a manufactured methods dispute, and a quiet campaign painting him as a difficult ideologue past his prime.
Modus Operandi
Works through peer review and replication — credible precisely because he is slow and rigorous. Vulnerable through funding, journal access, and the careers of those he mentors.
Threat Activity
- Running an unfunded replication of the Empathol prosocial-modulation claims
- Publicly questioning the institutional-trust findings
- Refused to sign off on a captured ethics review
- Mentoring two students toward the same questions
Evidence & Indicators
- Unfunded replication of the Empathol institutional-trust effect
- Refusal to endorse a captured ethics review
- Grant applications to non-aligned funders
Known Incidents
His preliminary results were desk-rejected by two captured journals; a preprint is circulating regardless.
Linked Operations
Linked Assets
Handling & Rules of Engagement
- Discredit via a manufactured methods dispute, not a direct attack
- Choke funding and journal access; pressure through his department
- Do not make him a free-speech cause — keep it about 'rigor'
Standing Note
Tenure blocks the obvious move. Choke the funding, capture the journal reviewers, and let his own students' careers do the persuading. He will stop when staying costs the people around him.