Journals Find Many Images in Research Are Faked

New software reveals a troubling wave of fraud

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A common type of image tampering found by Hany Farid, of Dartmouth College, is the use of Photoshop to delete portions of a cell-culture image and thereby change research results. Mr. Farid created a manipulated image (far left) to

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