Thank you for your personal examples of where you have seen science fraud. You are correct that this is pretty common. John Ioannidis, who is a Professor of Medicine at Stanford University, has documented that almost half of all research that is published in scientific journals can’t be replicated.
“Thank you for your personal examples of where you have seen science fraud.”
Your welcome. One more example that shows the difference in consequences between fraud in academia and in industry. In academia the consequences are few or none. Here’s what happened in industry. One Friday, all seemed normal with scientist X who was seen working in the lab. After the weekend we found his office dark and locked (no one locked their offices), and his name had been taken off his door and the Lab directory. NOBODY in management would talk about him. He was basically disappeared from the organization. Later we found out he had been caught faking some data.