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>My primary reason for believing this is that as a scientist myself, I've never done it, and none of my coauthors has ever proposed to do something like that.
by noobermin 3y ago
>My primary reason for believing this is that as a scientist myself, I've never done it, and none of my coauthors has ever proposed to do something like that.
Are you sure? Also a) how far along are you and b) how far from actual research work are you at this point?
- Al-Khwarizmi 3y agoI'm a full professor and PI of several projects. So sadly more management than actual hands-on research lately, but I've gone through all stages, of course. And yes, I have more than 100 papers and in their making I haven't fabricated data or seen anyone do so. If there is fake data in any of them, it would be because someone included it behind my back. But I doubt it's the case, as during the course of my career we tried various things that didn't work and we just moved on to other experiments. I've never had a student or collaborator even suggest "let's just edit the data and publish it". The most that we have done is to try to cast negative results in a positive light to make them publishable ("the results are promising...", "the results are mixed but show improvements for some dataset..."), but without touching the data or saying anything factually incorrect.