I know some phd's here in the states... it's not much better. Seriously.

Lots of back scratching that goes on behind closed doors and lots of bogus papers that re-use old results or "recombine" old data in order to get funding for an actual project... really a lot of hogwash and bad science.

Nothing directly to cause fraud where I am tho. Tho I'm sure some publications are better about that than others.