The obesity researcher Eric Poehlman, for example, the first scientific fraudster to be jailed in America, wasted millions of dollars of taxpayer money in grants from the US government in producing a decade’s worth of useless, fabricated data.114 And how many perfectly innocent scientists have wasted their own research grant money trying to follow or replicate his work, or that of other fraudsters? Aside from the waste, fraud has a terribly demoralising effect on scientists.
