A post-doctoral student is nervous about a peer review of her previously unpublished methods and data. She decides to introduce an error to the methods.
A doctoral student is working on her dissertation. She begins a paper for publication with three months more research needed. The doctor in charge of the lab fabricates data in order to finish the paper sooner so that he will receive a grant that will keep the lab open.
Peter and Sally are graduate students in a lab. Peter is afraid that Sally has fabricated data after a mix-up in the mice they were using in research occurred.
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