[M.D. Holloway]

I can see where faking data is a big problem, easy to do in pure research but much tougher in engineering where the work leads to actual applications and then wide spread duplication.

I guess the one area that would be tough to fake is math. Experimental data is easy to fluff. You can actually use math to do it but fluffing a paper on a math problem is a whole other thing. I can't see it being done...or many folks actually understanding the content.