Billions of dollars have been wasted on ß-amyloid research because of fraud in these research papers. Absolutely stunning. If you go through to the paper you can actually see the image manipulation in question. Yea, this is one case where a better prepared administration would probably be worse.
The hat discussion reminded me of this little bit of movie history: in an attempt to hide what they were working on, the working title of Return of the Jedi was "Blue Harvest: Horror Beyond Imagination." They went as far as to create a bunch of branded items for the fake movie. https://www.lucasfilm.com/news/history-in-objects-blue-harvest-crew-cap/
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The hat discussion reminded me of this little bit of movie history: in an attempt to hide what they were working on, the working title of Return of the Jedi was "Blue Harvest: Horror Beyond Imagination." They went as far as to create a bunch of branded items for the fake movie. https://www.lucasfilm.com/news/history-in-objects-blue-harvest-crew-cap/