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by Declanomous 3631 days ago
You can fabricate data nearly as easily as you can fabricate results. It is easier to detect fabricated results from raw data than it is from the final results, but fraud adapts to the methods used to detect it. If you create a new way to detect fraud, fraud will change to avoid that method. Detecting fraud is an arms race.
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At some point it becomes easier to just run the damned experiment. Similar to buying a safe based on making its contents not worth the trouble to crack it.

This would be a good first step. "Photoshop for biologists" (as a workshop) is very much a thing.