Fraud inside the academy has ballooned as the government has crowded out traditional sources of funding publishing efforts by university academics. We have discussed at length about the U.S. government's involvement in propagating its policy rhetoric on Climate Change by funding grants on climate change subject. This causes a self-propagating loop where research drives policy and then policy drives research tailored to getting grant money that comports with said policy. Now there are cracks beginning to show in the collective ediface of knowledge and people are worried. A famous Harvard University president, Caludine Gay, was outed very publicly about plagerism in research that she claimed as her own. These and other instances are shining a brighter light on the subject.

The War on Error - Washington Examiner

https://manhattan.institute/article/the-war-on-error-a-new-project-seeks-to-root-out-fraud-in-academia