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> ...it would help if journals routinely asked authors to share their IPD

Why couldn't a bad actor just fake the raw data? Isn't that what Climategate was all about?

That's hard to do such that it is undetectable to competent biostatisticians.

Edit: See the Dan Ariely drama for an example.

We don't actually know it's hard to do because the base rate of fraud is unknown.

So perhaps a competent biostatistician could get away with it?