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This is moving the goalposts in a dangerous way. You're suggesting that fraud isn't as big of a problem in the US or other countries, when in fact it definitely is. Chinese academics didn't force academics in the USA to fudge data, or play with statistics.

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> In a 2016 study1 in Scientometrics, Byrne and Labbé reported 48 problematic papers, including the 30 papers that had incorrectly identified nucleotide fragments. These were all written by authors from China.

Right, I'm not denying that the story linked was about fraud in China. But nowhere do they state that the problem is limited to Chinese researchers.

The _degree_ of the Chinese problem is astounding. There are bad apples in all cultures, but the rampant situation in China is something else.

Is it out of line with their proportion of researchers?

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