No need to catch people faking anything, you select them through grants and promotions and researchers know what they need to give to their funders/admins if they want to stay in the game. In fields so complex the reproducibility is difficult and accountability close to none
On a project I'm currently working on a colleague said to me "Can you imagine if we find _____?" Context withheld to protect the innocent, but everyone knows what the acceptable findings are going into a research project, when you're in certain fields.
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