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I think most would be surprised at how much fraud exists

I know for fact of several instances. The issue is that the "fraud" is not necessarily outright lying or changing data. The fraud is knowing that the data being used is questionable and/or just sampling the data that supports the desired end and then pushing that as the correct answer. I've witnessed more than one government project move forward with millions of dollars of funding on daisy picked information that supports moving forward while negative results are ignored or explained away with weak arguments. Why is it done? No results equals program cancelled/funding decreased etc Self preservation kicks in big time.
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