Knowledge is power.
Money is power.
In the United States, corruption in science seems inevitably linked with the politics and greed of capitalism. Manipulating statistics has been carried out for so long, that it can be referred to as the classical method of corruption . In theory, secret peer review should remove corrupt statistics from scientific publication. But in practice, political manipulation of statistics has created much more serious risk to the public. But at this time, publication or cover-up is the most active area of corruption.