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Comment author: biased_tracer 03 October 2012 09:45:02PM 1 point [-]

Possible reasons for a scientist to be fraudulent is glory and fierce competition (which is usually for jobs and grants). Both factors existed prominently in the past as well as nowadays. On the other hand, as buybuydandavis points out, there are good reasons to believe that we've become better at spotting suspect scientific articles.

Comment author: wedrifid 03 October 2012 09:57:47PM 4 points [-]

Possible reasons for a scientist to be fraudulent is glory and fierce competition (which is usually for jobs and grants).

I like to include 'money' in lists regarding motives for fraud too. There is plenty of that floating about in (certain kinds of) science.