The fraud detection aspect is truly intriguing. The motivation for the fraud could well be seeing other people's fraudulent papers and comparing yourself to their impossible data, and making the change in a desperate move for acceptance.
Academia as a whole has many diseases, but the emergence of the scientific academic world as a unified hive mind, which thanks to antics like this gets increasingly out of touch with reality, is seriously detrimental to progress.
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The fraud detection aspect is truly intriguing. The motivation for the fraud could well be seeing other people's fraudulent papers and comparing yourself to their impossible data, and making the change in a desperate move for acceptance.
Academia as a whole has many diseases, but the emergence of the scientific academic world as a unified hive mind, which thanks to antics like this gets increasingly out of touch with reality, is seriously detrimental to progress.