Comment by mrguyorama

Horseshit. All of the following scientists were caught outright faking results and as a result were generally removed from science.

Jan Hendrick Schon (he was even stripped of his Phd, which is not possible in most jurisdictions) He made up over 200 papers about organic semiconductors

Victor Ninov who lied about creating like 4 different elements

Hwang Woo-suk who faked cloning humans and other mammals, lied about the completely unethical acquisition of human egg cells, and literally had the entire Korean government attempting to prevent him from being discredited, and was caught primarily because his papers were reusing pictures of cells. Hilariously, his lab successfully cloned a dog which was considered difficult at the time.

Pons and Fleischmann didn't do any actual fraud. They were merely startlingly incompetent, incurious, and arrogant. They still never did real research again.