“Any research object with a strong and obvious series of inconsistencies may be deemed too inaccurate to trust, irrespective of their source. In other words, the description of inconsistency makes no presumption about the source of that inconsistency.”

Nick Brown and James Heathers write: We have seen two documents from the Scientific Integrity Officer at the University of Rennes-2 … The first of these dates from June 2018 and is entitled (our translation from French), “Preliminary Investigation Report Regarding the Allegations of Fraud against Nicolas Guéguen”… . We would …