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In addition to being ethical violations, why are data falsification and fabrication problematic?

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I believe the answer is: they impede scientific progress

The scientific findings that derived from a research often would be used as a basis for other research in the future. This method allow our scientific development to keep moving forward.
When a research knowingly falsified data, the basis for future scientific research is already wrong to begin with and this would stunt the development.
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