A Researcher Is Applying for a Grant Renewal, on the Topic

A researcher is applying for a grant renewal, on the topic of a promising new treatment for liver cancer. The researcher's group has used the treatment for 13 participants. The results, 9 responded and 4 did not, are not statistically significant. However, if the researcher entered each patient as three different people and reported the results as 27 responded and 12 did not, the results would be statistically significant. If the researcher chose to do this, what would it represent?

A) Beneficence
B) Fabrication
C) Falsification
D) Plagiarism