But are those two tales truly disconnected? Inflection, the opinion, editorial, and news analysis journal of AcademicInfluence.com delves deeper into this dichotomy and the very real student desperation underlying the epidemic of academic cheating: "Yes, cheating in school is morally wrong and ultimately works against a student," says Dave Tomar, author of the article, and the managing editor of Inflection. "But what causes students to cheat is the more fascinating—and tragic—story. It's one I know well because I spent a decade helping students cheat." Author of The Shadow Scholar: How I Made a Living Helping College Kids Cheat (Bloomsbury, 2012), Tomar worked as an academic ghostwriter before bringing widespread attention to the thriving cheating industry that undermines higher education. Writing under the pseudonym "Ed Dante," Tomar dropped a bombshell on the world of education when