Why are yo ualways agressive like that ?
I thought the study would have been interesting. You were saying how scientists disdain liying, and that it was so foreign to science. As if science was this great environment where lying cannot slip through, and if a scientist dared to lie, he was kicked out.
In the light of this, I think the study is totaly legitimate. 2% of scientists admitted to having ''fabricated, falsified, or modified data or results''. That is, they personnally admitted it. When they were asked about their colleagues actions resgarding falsification, the figure was now 14%.
And of course, they conclude that this is likely to be a conservative estimate.
Additionally, I gave you the probable cause for this. Peer-pressure: ''around 46 per cent [of scientists] say that they have observed fellow scientists engage inpresenting data selectively or changing the conclusions of a study in response to pressure''.
THis is not a debate, this is a discussion. Be less aggressive, it'll be better for everyone.