I do not agree with the official answer, nor I can see any answer to be better than others.
Here is why:
The passage states that
Quote:
Clearly, scientific fraud is a widespread problem among the authors submitting to that journal.
In order for the fraud to be "widespread", some of the authors has to submit faulty digital images.
Official answer states, that
Quote:
Many of the scientists who submitted articles with manipulated images did so in order to misrepresent the information conveyed by those images.
; the OA, however, doesn't tell you how many such scientists are there.
The OA to be true, we expect that number of fraudulent submissions must a significant part of total submissions.
But, for example,
There were 100,000 articles submitted.
Out of them 100 had digital images.
Out of 100, 60 ("dozens" per text) were with frauds. (to comply with official answer that "many" with frauds).
So it makes 60/100000 = 0.06% - is it
widespread? In common sense, and in my sense as well, it is not widespread at all! Therefore I consider OA to be not correct and the question to be of a poor quality.
Please correct me, if i'm wrong.
Thank you!