[garrettgarcia]

I thought his incentive was to defend the idea of miracles/faith/angels/God.

[neycoda]

More often than not in scientific fraud I've seen the underlying motives be personal beliefs than financial. This is why science needs to be much stronger in weeding out the charlatans.

[belief-in-money]

[citation needed]

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I conjecture the most common underlying motive is to embellish cv, and climb the academic ladder.