The fabricated data was patently absurd. They claimed that they inspected the genitals of 10,000 dogs at a single dog park. To punish him for this fabrication i

The fabricated data was patently absurd. They claimed that they inspected the genitals of 10,000 dogs at a single dog park. To punish him for this fabrication is ridiculous. They should rather look into the people who reviewed the article and didn't ring the alarm bells immediately after reading such an absurd claim. Data fabrication is taken so seriously because otherwise scientists could game the system by fabricating data to advance their career by making their research look more successful. That obviously didn't apply here -- he didn't even publish the article under his own name.