If this is sociology, then the answer is that in any crowd, anywhere in the world, people have many different motivations.
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One of the example would be C<span>hanging the data to support the hypothesis.
Changing data to support the hypothesis woulld definitely make the studies turn into wrong direction every course of the way.
If the study is being done for mass consumption (such as development of new drugs) , this type of behavior could could cause a lot of health risks to many people (even death)</span>
A because Rome was in a good place so they had a lot of resources
