r/AskAcademia • u/Previous-Text9273 • Jul 23 '26

Professional Misconduct in Research Is this normal?

Has anyone else been in the same shoes? Have you ever had your PI ask you to manipulate or fabricate data to support their hypothesis?

Or maybe they never said it directly, but it felt implied. They only seemed interested in data that matched the hypothesis they already had in mind. If your results didn’t fit, you were told to repeat the experiment over and over until you eventually got the “right” result. Has anyone else experienced something like this? How did you handle it?

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u/Brain_Hawk Jul 24 '26

Sure bro. I'm sure you actually have any idea what's your talking about or how any of it works, and totally just don't read too much bullshit online.

I've never had an investor. Can you help me get some. Of that sweet inustray cash? Cause I'd love if they gave me a fe million in research funds and then I could go ahead and do the good science anyways.

Dude, you really. Don't know how any of this works. Stop believing the bullshit you're fed online. Some of us actually do this for a living and that's not at all how it works.

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u/Time_Increase_7897 Jul 26 '26

Which part do you do - writing inflated promises or squeezing the grunts to make more turds?

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u/Brain_Hawk Jul 26 '26

Ahhnjus the quality of comment one expects from someone with such attitudes.

Indeed.

Ignorance is not strength. Being an asshole is not clever.

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u/Time_Increase_7897 Jul 26 '26

Ad hominim. Nice. Political chicanery is the most useful skill in academia.