In 2018, behavioral scientist Zoé Ziani challenged the results of Francesca Gino's study on feelings of moral and physical impurity after career networking events in her dissertation. As Gino was a successful professor at Harvard Business School, Ziani's criticism was judged to be inappropriate, self-righteous and inflammatory and she had to rewrite her paper. It was only after much effort from data forensics and lawyers that Ziani was able to prove in 2023 that Gino's findings were tantamount to data falsification. Data had been falsified in some places and good values had been replicated to fill in blank spots in others. Consequences of this incident included the demand for reproduction of old results, journals requiring data sanity checks, pre-registrations placing value on negative results too as well as open data becoming more established as a standard.

Researchers should document the collection and processing of the data as well as the analysis process. This enables a critical reception of the results and the original data and further research based on them.