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@dalias @larsmb @b_rain

As someone that has worked as a research scientist in chemistry for the last 30 years I can guarantee that the amount of fraudulent publications is a lot lower than that. Probably significantly below 10% in the hard sciences. Hard numbers are difficult to find.

It happens, but when it happens it is usually falsified data, that can only be caught by replication. Carelessness and mistakes obviously also happen.