Article: “Mitsubishi Electric used special program to spin fake data.” Asahi.com
Excerpt: “Mitsubishi Electric Corp. fashioned a computer program to churn out fictitious data used in place of actual tests on air conditioning units it supplied to railway companies apparently for more than three decades.” http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14385139
The article shows that data produced by a process in the natural sciences is not necessarily trustworthy and shouldn’t automatically be viewed more highly than other kinds of knowledge.