As another commenter here put it, this is "endemic in biology," unfortunately. I once had a job at a top research lab doing engineering on their HPC clusters.

As another commenter here put it, this is "endemic in biology," unfortunately. I once had a job at a top research lab doing engineering on their HPC clusters. There are a lot of big-ego fraudsters in science. I think the most egregious thing I knew about was that payments, I mean donations, would come in from the nearby Roman Catholic Diocese to certain researchers. A few months later, something like a research paper supporting the idea that genital mutilation (male circumcision) reduces AIDs transmission rates would come out. Things like faking, I mean "correcting" datasets and just making stuff up wasn't uncommon at all. You had to publish or perish.