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It's conceivable. But anyone who went into academia for the money is Doing It Wrong, so I tend to give academics the benefit of the doubt that they're enthusiastic about pursuing the betterment of their respective fields.
[It] sounds about as plausible to me as the idea that most viruses are created by Norton to keep them in business.
ETA: hmm... awkward wording. "It" above refers to the preceding hypothesis about academics acting in bad faith.
I have personally attended a session at a conference in which a researcher presented essentially perfect prediction of disease status using a biomarker approach and had his results challenged by an aggressive questioner. The presenter was no dunce, and argued only that the results suggested the line of research was promising. Nevertheless, the questioner felt the need to proclaim disbelief in presented results. No doubt the questioner thought he was pursuing the betterment of his field by doing so.
There's just a point where if someone claims to achieve results you think are impossible, "mistake or deception" becomes more likely to you than "good science".