[mwt]

> basically all images in scientific publications are not scrutinized for photoshop

This was (mostly) true back then, but it is definitely not true today. People tempted to commit fraud now have to be worried about people like Elisabeth Bik exposing them and ruining their careers. In my experience, the type of people known lie in papers overlap strongly with those that are career-minded/money-driven. So having a few journalists with the skills to detect fraud is an obvious win. Some of the frauds will just get better at, that's just how it does, but it's not like there are no imaging experts in the field.

[BurningFrog]

So the frauds of today are done in smarter ways.

Maybe they will be discovered with new tools developed in a few decades.

[mwt]

Hopefully so, but there will probably always be a back-and-forth between frauds and journalists in the same way security is always a competition. At least the easy frauds are more likely to be caught today.