Red wine [health benefits] researcher flagged for fake data

[Celebration]

3. I'm really suspicious that this type of thing might be widespread

There is so much publish or perish mentality that I wonder it that doesn't indirectly encourage this type of behavior. I am starting to wonder if this isn't more common than thought, and people aren't caught!

Having said that,

http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/SCI-FABRICATEDRESEARCH_7005502/SCI-FABRICATEDRESEARCH_7005502/

At least one resveratrol expert said the damage from Das’ apparent fraud to resveratrol research will be minimal. Retraction Watch said Nir Barzilai, of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, said he’d heard of Das but never met him. Barzilai also noted that most of Das’ list of publications “seem to be in lower-impact factor journals.”

“There are many investigators who are working on resveratrol,” Retraction Watch quotes Barzilai as saying. “That doesn’t mean we know the whole truth. But Rome wasn’t built on Dr. Das.”