“Researchers lie” (not always!). If you make this kind of observation in front of even one researcher, from any field, you’ll get seriously bashed. It’s the fate of the “unskilled”: they can’t challenge the authority of the experts!!!
But indeed “researchers lie” – researchers claim so! Two of them, from Stanford University, Jeff Hancock (professor) and David Markowitz (graduate student), searched the articles contained in the PubMed database, which holds all “life sciences” publications from 1973 to 2013. In this collection they identified 253 papers, most of them in bio-medical journals, for which “fraud” (either false data or manipulated conclusions/results) had been documented.
The purpose of this particular study (published in the Journal of Language and Social Psychology last November) was certainly not to prove that “scientists cheat at cards”! It was far more ambitious: to identify “linguistic structures” of scientific deception, so that the task of analyzing and detecting such frauds could subsequently be carried out by computers.
We cannot predict how far this noble effort to protect scientific truth and integrity will go… It will be kind of funny, though, if, in the near future, some robot / scientific security guard asks various ambitious scientists for their degrees and then rips them up in front of their faces while spitting in their faces…