That's not really the problem. There are many ways to fake papers and there's no guarantee that a Photoshopped image is detectable just by looking at it. The p

That's not really the problem. There are many ways to fake papers and there's no guarantee that a Photoshopped image is detectable just by looking at it. The problem is that somehow researchers managed to get hundreds of millions of dollars, entire labs, and 15+ years of research on the back of a study that presumably nobody ever tried to replicate, nor did they notice that the claims weren't true even when building new research on top of it. That's the problem and it is frankly very hard to understand how it's possible.