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Just scanning the wikipedia article on scientific misconduct, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientific_misconduct_incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
by thereddaikon 4y ago
Just scanning the wikipedia article on scientific misconduct, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientific_misconduct_incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientific_misconduct_... , it looks like Biology and Medicine are the most likely to suffer from fabricated evidence.
Physics, aside from the major scandals of Ninov and Schon seem to be much cleaner.
Then there is the replication crisis and sokal and its spawn repeatedly showing a lack of rigor and scrutiny in certain fields.
People act shocked when there the public distrusts "science" so much. I don't think its surprising at all. People don't distrust science. They distrust scientists. And there is ample evidence to show they are just as flawed and fallible as anyone else