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Data fabrication vs. falsification
Fabrication is inventing data or results that were never collected. Falsification is manipulating real data or results to misrepresent what was actually found. Both are forms of research misconduct, not interchangeable terms.
In context
You'll usually need this when precisely naming what kind of data integrity breach occurred, since the two aren't interchangeable.