What brings this clusterpuckery to the level of fraud - the purposeful and deliberate criminal misrepresentation of facts in pursuit of a pecuniary
gain at the expense of other people, which could not have been achieved without telling lies - is the fact that the breach of method was manifestly not inadvertent, but had been undertaken by the investigators during the course of data - gathering, with the overt
objective of misrepresenting the
truth shared by those investigators among the raters in a manifestly contrived scheme of duplicity.