sure. but i think i'd rather see biologists debunk prevailing theories in biology by doing biology while in the process getting better at biology rather than dabbling in forensic image analysis. (although, who knows, maybe said dabbling could lead to some new meaningful insights down the line)
i guess the bigger point is that the act of topical inquiry should have inbuilt mechanisms for discarding ideas and approaches that turn out to be dead ends, without having to rely on them actually being fraudulent (they can be, and often are, completely legitimate, yet also completely wrong).
we shouldn't be discovering bad ideas in science by fraud detection, we should be discovering them by mainstream scientific process.
i guess the bigger point is that the act of topical inquiry should have inbuilt mechanisms for discarding ideas and approaches that turn out to be dead ends, without having to rely on them actually being fraudulent (they can be, and often are, completely legitimate, yet also completely wrong).
we shouldn't be discovering bad ideas in science by fraud detection, we should be discovering them by mainstream scientific process.