Ah I must have missed that post, would have liked to engage on it.

At my former university, the chair of the political science department published a paper with a grad student. The paper won an award and the grad student had a job lined up at a top tier university. It later came out that the student had completely faked the data. He was so brazen that he even lied about grant funding in the "thanks" section of the paper.

What kinda pissed me off was that the tenured professor who was supposedly overseeing this research got little to no blowback. if you're going to put your name on it, and if you're the senior author, and you're ready to claim credit, I think you should also be penalized if the paper turns out to be fraudulent--even if you weren't the one to actually engage in the fraud.