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Originally Posted by LubeMaster77
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.
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you don't seem to realize that any important result will immediately attract others who will duplicate the experiment - if the results do not match... !!
I suspect a more serious problem than fraud is that certain areas are simply not investigated at all, but should be.