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How? If they don't know what the answer is supposed to be, it's not clear how they can fake data. This can further be improved by universities contributing to a 'noise' fund, where requested experiments are expected to _not_ turn anything up.

Also, the main purpose of this is not to catch corruption, just prevent mostly honest researchers from fooling themselves (and then others), and increasing the base line for research.

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