Article: “Mitsubishi Electric used special program to spin fake data”
“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/14385139http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14385139
The alleged issues with the tests have gone on for more than thirty years – an extraordinary length of time which certainty fits this part of the prescribed title: “when can we have confidence in what we claim to know?”