They pull the paper and check the data to see if what the other scientist is saying is warranted by the data. No authority involved whatsoever.
So no false or misleading data can ever happen in a scientific paper or article? Why not? And just so you know, it's happened many times in the past, so don't go leaping to undue conclusions.
So please refrain from your authority argument in the future. It don't want to write the same answer a fourth time.
It's the same point, Spurious, in most anything that's written, and that includes scientific articles, etc. Whoever writes the articles or collects the data, etc, can be lying for a variety of reasons.
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