To amplify on that. Consider the upside to catching a cheater. Catching a scientific cheater: * You improve the collective knowledge of humanity. * If the c

To amplify on that. Consider the upside to catching a cheater. Catching a scientific cheater: * You improve the collective knowledge of humanity. * If the cheater is in your own country, you may also reduce the size of the grant-seeking pool * Fame? I doubt it. Catching a speed-run cheater: * If you're a contender, you retain your place on the leaderboard * Fame. Note too that the baseline assumption in science is that while we can make mistakes, we're not fraudsters. The reason science advanced so far and so quickly is that we basically trust one another. The baseline assumption in competitive games is that there will be cheaters.