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For Bengü Sezen at Columbia University, over the course of a decade, conducted a massive and sustained effort to manipulate and falsify research data. She even created fictitious people and organizations to back up her data and results. Sezen was found guilty of 21 counts of research misconduct, with at least nine papers found to be falsified, fabricated, plagiarized, or unable to be replicated.True / False.

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True

Step-by-step explanation:

Bengü Sezen, a chemistry graduate joined the research group under professor Dalibor Sames in 2000 at Columbia University. She was considered as a prized student by her professor Sames and turned out to be a talented student in the training.

But Sezen had made several fraud in her Ph.D papers under the name of Dalibor Sames. She tried to publish several her now-retracted and fraudulent papers.

Later Bengü Sezen was found guilty of misconducting and doing fraud with her research work.

Thus the answer is TRUE.

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