Maybe I shouldn't stick my nose into this, but I think there are some ways to compromise. It's not like they actually may know it's him. I mean, this is assuming that he's not using like a voice modulator and isn't showing his face on camera or something. If he's using stuff like that to hide his identity, then it would probably be fine. It's not like they're tracking his IP address. Or his thesis could be a lie by omission where he's studying the origin of Pokemon, but what he really is studying the origin of Pokemon of the extraterrestrial kind. I don't know, just a few thoughts.