From In The Pipeline, about the anesthesiology researcher:
http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2009/03/19/fraud_how_and_why_and_how_again.php
From the blog, why he thinks the researcher faked stuff:
"The biggest problem is that the physican involved seems to have decided
that he could make a good living by telling people what they wanted to
hear."
Regarding the psychological motivation: I know absolutely nothing about the Reuben case, but I can't help but wonder if he might have been making up data to justify strongly held hypotheses. I'm sure most of us are familiar with someone who was overly devoted to their idea of how something should work, often in the face of contrary data. Perhaps Reuben *knew* he was right but either couldn't or wouldn't generate the necessary supporting data the old fashioned way and so he invented what he needed. In a scenario like that he might have believed he was actually helping patients by encouraging others to adopt his ideas.
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