Fabrication is particularly dangerous for all of the following reasons except:
A)It introduces erroneous information into the body of scientific knowledge.
B)It sidetracks researchers from following more productive lines of research.
C)It is impossible to detect.
D)It can delay therapeutic progress in clinical research.

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Fabrication is not impossible to detect, in fact, it is often discovered through peer review and replication of research results. Therefore, fabrication is not particularly dangerous because it can be caught and corrected.

Fabrication Is Particularly Dangerous for All of the Following Reasons