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People like us think scientists care about big-money things, but they largely don't care about that stuff as much as they care about prestige in their field. Prominent scientists get huge rewards of power and influence, as well as indirect money from leveraging that influence. When you start to think that way, the incentives for fraud become very "minor" and "petty" compared to what you are thinking of.



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