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False evidence, fabricated evidence, forged evidence, fake evidence or tainted evidence is information created or obtained illegally in order to sway the verdict in a court case. Falsified evidence could be created by either side in a case (including the police/ prosecution in a criminal case ), or by someone sympathetic to either side.
In Denmark, scientific misconduct is defined as "intention[al] negligence leading to fabrication of the scientific message or a false credit or emphasis given to a scientist", and in Sweden as "intention[al] distortion of the research process by fabrication of data, text, hypothesis, or methods from another researcher's manuscript form or ...
For cases of fabricated evidence, the consequences can be wide-ranging, with others working to confirm (or refute) the false finding, or with research agendas being distorted to address the fraudulent evidence.
Allegations that part of a key 2006 study of Alzheimer's disease may have been fabricated has rocked the scientific research community.
A federal court has ruled that world-renowned forensic scientist Henry Lee fabricated evidence that sent two innocent teenagers to prison for 30 years and he is liable for what could be tens of ...
It supplied research with induced errors and found that most reviewers failed to spot the mistakes, even after being told of the tests. [1] A pseudonymous fabricated paper on the effects of a chemical derived from lichen on cancer cells was submitted to 304 journals for peer review.
There's no evidence the swastika sign came from Trump's campaign. A Barnwell County official told PolitiFact the sign was tampered with, and a Trump spokesperson told USA TODAY the sign was "fake."
In scientific inquiry and academic research, data fabrication is the intentional misrepresentation of research results. As with other forms of scientific misconduct, it is the intent to deceive that marks fabrication as unethical, and thus different from scientists deceiving themselves. There are many ways data can be fabricated.