Believing that what you see, read and hear is real and truthful has never been under such a challenge as it is today. While technology plays a big role in creating this state of affairs, most egregious is the human faker, someone who sets out to deceive and profit with methods that long pre-date today’s sophisticated technology, like AI. In scientific research, this manifests itself in areas like data and image falsification. Uncovering such dishonesty isn’t easy. When you do,…