Four people and two papers using the same data. Paper 1. paper led by junior scholar (OT) and his advisor (HS). Paper is going well Paper 2. three coauthors including HS. Going nowhere since 2011. The two coauthors of paper 2 try to rip off paper 1's after seeing slides at a conference. Paper still goes nowhere. The coauthors (PS, SS) then threaten paper 1's authors (especially the junior guy) to sabotage their project on the grounds that the papers are too similar due to the model being the same (with a threatening email that they will block the publication of the paper at top journal). The compromise they came up with was to put all four people's name on Paper 1 and the junior who did all the work is now bitter.