Acceleration of the arms race between fraudsters and honest researchers

I was recently asked to review a paper that piqued my curiosity. From the abstract it sounded as if it was a secondary analysis of a dataset that I had deposited in a repository. But the described data didn't quite match what was in the repository. As I usually do, I said I'd only review it if data and code were available. The authors complied: I was pointed at the repository where my data were…