Data Falsification Quotes

Figures won’t lie but liars will figure.

Managers that always promise to 'make the numbers' will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers.

I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself.

Although no explanation can be expected to be satisfactory, it remains a possibility among others that Mendel was deceived by some assistant who knew too well what was expected. This possibility is supported by independent evidence that the data of most, if not all, of the experiments have been falsified so as to agree closely with Mendel's expectations.

On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.

Trimming consists of clipping off little bits here and there from those observations which differ most in excess from the mean, and in sticking them onto those which are too small; a species of 'equitable adjustment,' as a radical would term it, which cannot be admitted in science.

The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.

With so much money riding on reported numbers, human nature is to manipulate them. And with so many doing it, you get Serpico effects, where everyone rationalizes that it's okay because everyone else is doing it. It is always thus.

You get in a lot of trouble when you start putting fictitious numbers.

Some folklorists just collected dead bones from one graveyard, only to bury them in another, their library.