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Ok. Tl;dw. Someone started questioning where a professor got the numbers for several big studies. The studies cited a massive survey with a high response rate. They started questioning the professor on that survey data, but he kept dodging the question.

Eventually they filed a formal complaint with the university, but the university squashed it by making sure it never got past the inquiry phase. Broke their own rules regarding unbiased panels by staffing the majority of the panel with the fraudster doctor's co-authors.

Talks about universities in general covering up for bad studies to avoid bad publicity and because big studies make them look good and get them a lot of money.

Edit: Oh. And the cited study supposedly came from an institute that had been defunct for several years. Basically, they seem to have invented a study to make up numbers for their studies.