It is interesting that people think courts of law are the correct places to address such issues: this is a classic category error. Scientists can commit legal fraud, by fiddling grants and so forth, and they can commit academic fraud by falsifying data but they are quite separate things - the people with the skills to detect one sort are not the same as the other, nor are the tools to detect the offence the same. A court of law is ill-equipped and not designed to address claims about falsified data.
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