Looking for Love: A University of Alberta researcher went to great lengths to falsify research results, and caused his lab a great deal of grief in the process. His motivation:

"According to Mr. Xu,' says the U.S. report, 'his motivation for falsifying experimental results was the wish to obtain exciting, desirable results which would win him the approval and praise of XXX.' 'XXX' is unidentified in the report to protect confidentiality.

Mr. Xu has left science and is now in business.