Wonder if MarCott's bank account has had a dramatic change recently? !
there are different levels of bad things you can do as a scientist.
the first is to look at data and draw the wrong conclusion- that is forgiveable if it is an honest mistake and this is the point of peer-review (among other things)
the next level is looking at data and manipulating it to give you the results you want. This is unforgiveable and should get you fired and out of your fiel.
But the absolute worst, is to delete original raw data because it does not support what you want, and just make up the results you want. This borders on criminal because you can no longer even check the raw data- it is knowledgs permanently lost. It is a waste of all the money spent gathering that data.
The last thing is what these “scientists” did and they should no longer have jobs- why they do is beyong comprehension.