Officials falsified data to meet procurement quotas.
Others simply fabricate data – Dutch psychologist Diederik Stapel shockingly falsified data from more than 50 studies.
What about U.S. News & World Report's reaction to the falsified data?
"Any school we learn that has falsified data will be removed," he said.
And in hundreds of cases, the workers said, they falsified data or turned in information they knew was inadequate.
14% of scientists know of a colleague who falsified data and about 2% admit committing misconduct themselves.
Finally, he falsified data so as not to record his trades properly, often inventing false clients and trades for hedges.
In July, for example, the Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists reported that Dr. Yoshitaka Fujii had falsified data in 172 papers.
A researcher, admitting that he falsified data, has retracted a study on the use of bone-marrow transplants and high-dose chemotherapy to treat advanced breast cancer.
Between 1993 and 2011, Fujii published 212 papers, 172 of which contained falsified data, catapulting him into the dubious position of world record holder for research fraud.
But a report from India's Central Bureau of Investigation alleges that the auditors "consciously" overlooked accounting irregularities and "knowingly" certified inflated and falsified data.
