[woofie11]

This is exactly right. About half of the people I've seen leave MIT for faculty positions at better schools engaged in these kinds of academic fraud. I only saw one case of outright fabrication, but publishing results which the research knew they had no support for? Very common.

Re-analyzing data 20 times, changing methodologies (median versus mean, handling of outliers, etc.) typically is enough to get an interesting result, and isn't enough to raise alarms. Most people are competent enough to do something like that.

Credit theft is rampant at MIT as well. Financial schemes too. No one does a darned thing about it either.