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Once a rarity, research fraud is on the rise at some of the nation’s most prestigious universities. What is most disturbing is that the fraud in question too often involves tenured professors with sterling reputations who betray the public’s trust.

https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2023/11/why-research-fraud-is-getting-worse/

Most recently, the venue was Florida State University, where Professor Eric Stewart was terminated for “research misconduct” and for the unprecedented number of his articles that were retracted.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/fired-scholars-disputed-race-research-totals-more-than-3000-citations/

Next in line was the City University of New York, which found “egregious misconduct” in data management and recordkeeping on the part of Hoau-Yan Wang, a professor in its School of Medicine who was working on an Alzheimer’s drug.
https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/alzheimers-researcher-found-to-have-committed-misconduct-49d6428d

Earlier this decade, Harvard Business School accused Francesca Gino, a prominent professor, of data fraud in four behavioral-science papers. (Ironically, Gino’s research concerned why people lie.) Acting on a tip from the social-science research blog Data Colada, Harvard placed Gino on unpaid leave and is seeking to revoke her tenure.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/30/business/the-harvard-professor-and-the-bloggers.html

After Harvard came Stanford, where the president, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, resigned after a series of investigations revealed that he had failed to live up to standards “of scientific rigor and process” and had not corrected the record on numerous occasions. The founders of Retraction Watch estimate that “at least 100,000 retractions should occur every year.” When retractions are underperformed or underreported, public confidence in research is severely undermined.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/09/scientific-misconduct-retraction-watch