While you’re right in a broad sense your points are irrelevant here. This is about fraudulent data (apparently created with a random number generator) being use

While you’re right in a broad sense your points are irrelevant here. This is about fraudulent data (apparently created with a random number generator) being used. This is not and should not be something we expect from scientists. If this story was solely about the replication crisis in behavioral economics, then your comment would be relevant.