Anesthesiologist published 212 papers; only 3 fraud-free.Clearly a man dedicated to his work.
Unfortunately data fraud is the least of it. The whole Scientific Literature Industry is a racket now too. Very little of the "legitimate" research has any value either. Every publisher puts out as many journals that they can, the authors submit as many papers as they can, they hire anyone they can for peer review, and just crank out the "studies" as fast as they can. The authors pad their resumes and the publishers keep all the copyrights.
China is really bad about this right now, they put every person in the department on the list of authors for every paper. The list of names is often longer than the abstract. It's insane.
There's a journal for anything you can think of. If you want to start a new science genre- just start a journal... I don't know, the Journal of Aberrent Internet Behavior. Whatever.
There are prestigious journals, ones that are truly high calibre operations. But there are so many others now, practically speaking- anyone can get a scientific article published. Anyone.
Because it's not about quality science anymore. It's about quantity. This too is now driven by third-party-profit.
