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by iudqnolq 1305 days ago
Yes, and the way this is corrected against is with reputation. Do that, and no one will trust you again. Seems to be working here.

Edit: A better way of putting this is that the risk of doing something is a combination of the odds of being caught and the consequences of being caught. It's much harder to catch a deliberately lying paper author than a mistaken one, so we make the punishment much higher to compensate.