That is what peer review is all about. Speaking of that, does anyone have a link to a description of HOW this came out. Then please re-read the article. It details how even peer review failed to catch the fraud until after the fact. And IIRC somewhere in the article, or later in the thread, it says that
bloggers caught the guy. Think Dan Rather and Memogate...
"That's a difficult one," said Keith Campbell, the University of Nottingham researcher who helped clone Dolly the sheep in 1997. "Scientists are asked to referee a lot of papers and to a certain extent we have to believe each other as to the validity of the data."