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That’s the fault of the person falsifying data, not the person reporting the fraud.

Yeah but it still happens, and to people you care about who didn't deserve it.

That's true. Several people will probably lose their jobs.

But that is the kind of thinking that condemns whistleblowing for the wrong reasons. To put it differently, people rather prefer to keep on pretending if that keeps their jobs than to do the right thing. And that makes everyone a fraudster.

In most fields this is unimportant. Bad research can have significant public policy impact.

Sure, it sucks for the students, but you have to introduce accountability in academia for it to stop being worthless.

Ideally, yes! That would be the best outcome.

I don't know why people always see dens of corruption and think that they ought to be protected, because of the jobs of the folks doing the corrupt work. Jobs are not the point of life, and we should accept that some jobs are bad jobs which should be eliminated.