Collaborating to produce a scientific paper that is based upon bogus evidence in order to advance ones career in science is a scientific conspiracy. In this case, it is no longer theoretical, it actually occurred. It happens, but rarely are so many authors from one local all implicated - I would have to say that it is reasonable to theorize that the authors did conspire.
It is a cautious observation that a paper parroting a popular prospective is more likely to find its way into publication than a less mainstream paper that may have taken the author decades to develop.
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