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mk · 4075 days ago · link · · parent · post: Faking of scientific papers on an industrial scale in China
I was doing research over there in 2001, and at the time it was widespread. I had a colleague tell me that he thought that nearly all publications at that time involved fraudulent data. I am sure that it has improved in the interim, but China has a very deep rooted problem with corruption. Science, particularly biological science, is so very susceptible to this kind of behavior.