Even worse, you can make the data up as you go. That happens too.
Yeah, that would be a next level.
You don;t even need to do any actual work for that thought.
You just sit home and watch TV and make things up in your head.
I was thinking more of actual scientific malpractice. Where work is actually done, good data is collected, and then some one deletes it because they don’t like the results. You can never get original data back again.
You can make it all up, though, sure.