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The original was posted on /r/youtubedrama by /u/YaBoiCade on 2024-11-15 13:55:23+00:00.
I’m here reporting on something that I discovered myself that I don’t think anyone else really knows about. I used to be a big fan of Kyle so I hate making this but the amount of money he probably made from this video with I’m sure nothing going to the original author infuriates me to the point I feel I have to say it. 2 years ago Kyle uploaded this video. It is on the Therac-25 a machine once used in Radiation Therapy to treat cancer that ended up causing a few deaths.
So while I was going through Radiation Therapy school I actually had a paper to write on the Therac-25. I watched Kyle Hill and knew he had a great video on it so I was going to use that as one of my sources. At the end of the video he reads a quote from what he said was an interview from Barbra Wade Rose. Curious about this and wanting another source for my paper I was writing I looked into it. But I did not find an interview. I found an article titled “Fatal Dose” by Barbra Wade Rose, which I’ll link here. But as I began reading, I noticed it was a bit too familiar. I went back and played Kyle Hills video only to find out that his entire video is him just reading Barbra’s article almost word for word, only leaving out a few fluff sentences here and there but using the exact same verbiage in the article. Feel free to compare the article I linked to the actual video, it’s infuriating.
There is no telling how much money he made off of that video. And yet he still had the nerve to mention Barbra’s name in the video but not site her work in the video. And to this day there are no sources linked in the description as shown
I didn’t go through his entire catalog of videos and see how much he’s actually egregiously plagiarized, this is just something I happened to stumble across while researching something he happened to make a video on but I figured I’d share.
Edit:
It seems Kyle has edited the description of the video after making this post to actually include the article written by Barbra Wade Rose which I see as a win for her. I guess looking at it now I did exaggerate a bit when I said word for word, however plagiarism does not have to be word for word. The video still follows the article with enough changed around for plagiarism detectors to not pick it up.
Examples:
Barbra: Yarborough said she immediately felt this red-hot sensation. “You burned me,” she told the technician, who replied that it wasn’t possible
Kyle: Yarbourgh felt a red-hot sensation instead of nothing. “You burned me!” She told the technician. Who quickly assured her that this wasn’t possible.
Barbra: Yarborough returned in two weeks. She said she felt tingling inside her body and growing pain. There was a red mark the size of a dime on her chest. There was also a larger pink circle of skin high on the left side of her back. Still’s stomach turned over when he saw it. “That looks like the exit dose made by an electron beam,” he said to Yarborough and her doctor
Kyle: 2 weeks after Katie yarbourgh told her technician she felt a burning sensation during her cancer treatment, there was a red mark the size of a dime on her chest. And directly opposite that mark, a large disk on her back. Tim Still the physicist at kennestone examined her. “That looks like the exit dose made by an electron beam” he said.
Barbra: Over the next few weeks Katie Yarborough’s body began to look as if a slow motion gunshot had gone through her chest and our her back. The site where the beam had entered was now a hole. Over the next few months surgeons twice tried to graft healthy skin over the wound but each time the grafted skin rotted and died. Her left arm became paralyzed except when it spasmed.
Kyle: over the next few weeks, the dime sized red circle on yarbourghs chest became a hole. Skin grafts failed as any new tissue simply rotted away. Her left breast, recently cancer free had to be removed. Her left arm was now immobile. Many sources report it was though a slow motion gunshot would had gone through her chest and out of her back
It was still bad on Kyles part to not initially include the sources in the description only to add them 2 years later and monetize Roses work only mentioning her as an interviewer to Yarboroughs lawyer at the end of the video. I stand by that. I am happy knowing she will at least get the credit she deserves. I respect that Kyle has made a comment responding to my post and while I am at fault for how I handled the initial post I still stand by this being plagiarism and at the very least, a very immoral thing to do. I was just wanting to get the word out because I feel Barba deserved the credit and monetization for her hard work. And even then Kyle still didn’t link the actual article from Barbra’s website in the description for her to capitalize off of the use of her work. That’s all I have to say, the rest is for you to interpret how you feel.