Richards was suspended over his role in the faking of injuries for strategic purposes during his time as director of rugby at Harlequins.
The findings show that Facebook could be used as a reliable job-screening tool, he says, especially since candidates would have a hard time "faking" their personalities in front of their friends.
The scientist in 2006 admitted faking his findings, after questions of impropriety had emerged.
In fact, faking his fakery may have been his master stroke, since no amount of sleuthing could detect forgeries that never existed.
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Faking that will be difficult in the long run.
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John Darwin and his wife Anne were convicted of insurance fraud in 2008 over the faking of his death.
Far more damaging has been a system for vetting new buildings that was hurriedly introduced last summer in reaction to architects faking data for earthquake-proofing.
Reports of Hwang Woo-suk's studies attracted worldwide attention and enthusiasm from researchers and patients, but in 2006 he acknowledged faking his findings after questions of impropriety emerged.
Elon Musk, the founder and chief executive of Tesla Motors, is accusing the New York Times of faking data about how the electric Model S performed in cold Northeast weather.
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She mastered the art of faking so well that by the time her mother-in-law died, and she could finally start eating according to her real preferences, she found that she no longer had preferences.
Something about him fills a gap in American politics: he seems not to be faking when he talks of mending America's religious and racial divides.
In 2004, Woo Suk Hwang, a veterinary scientist at Seoul National University, claimed to have succeeded in achieving the feat, but later admitted to faking the data.
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