fabricateur
A researcher who makes up numbers like they’re playing a prank on the entire universe. They don’t care if people get fired or lose their degrees as long as they get to stay on top.
He added extra results just to make his graph look pretty. No one else saw the mess he made.
She copied her friend’s data and said it was hers. Now they’re both getting in trouble.
He made up his whole experiment. The real one failed, and he didn’t want to admit it.