The Dietary effect of natto that I wrote about before was disclosed to be based on fake data. The TV program was a fabricated story. The story was extremely vicious. I guess that the producers were desperate to make the program work at any cost. They have been making a similar program every week. It must have been hard work.
When I was in postgraduate school to get a Ph.D, I sometimes felt a kind of frustration. You know, when I couldn't get preferable data from the experiments, I got depressed. I imagine that the feelings of those TV producers were likewise and they yielded to the temptation of making up the segment. The TV program might come to an end.
(Vocabulary)
trumped-up 〈申し立て・口実などが〉 でっち上げの, 偽りの
trumped-up charges でっち上げられた容疑
fabricate 〈話・うそなど〉 をでっち上げる, 捏造(ねつぞう)する
The police were accused of fabricating evidence.
警察は証拠を捏造したとして告発された
vicious 悪意のある, 意地悪な
a vicious rumor 悪意のあるうわさ
at any cost 金をいくら出しても、是が非でも、意地でも、絶対に、万難を排して
segment 〔テレビ・ラジオ放送などの〕一区切り、一番組、ひとコマ
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