It's not easy to do good science, and, according to John Timmer at Ars Technica, it's even harder to cheat, at least without getting caught. So Timmer offers wry advice to would-be fabricators. "Unfortunately, data has somehow managed to become the foundation of modern science — so you're going to need to get some from somewhere if you want a career. A few brave souls have figured out a way to liberate data from the tyranny of experimentation: they simply make it up."
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