@nancylwayne @Frederik_Borgesius I think the main problem is not that there are people cheating. It's that universities don't do anything about them, and it's not just when they are 'big' scientists (well, they enabled them to become directors or what not)

Having seen a couple of cases of this, my impression is that the policy of many universities is to cover their assess and not do anything about 'problematic' employees, whether they falsify data, or harass others. It doesn't make sense, because I'd rather work for a uni that said 'we made a mistake hiring X, we will not support this person or their science anymore'. But apparently that's bad PR. 😭