There are differences, however, between research using poor methodology that end up being worthless because it can't be replicated, and research where some data

There are differences, however, between research using poor methodology that end up being worthless because it can't be replicated, and research where some data points were deleted and others were created in order to show a better result. The work here isn't fraudulent because of a mistake or because the author has shaky statistics knowledge, but because it was fabricated.