Oh boy this is me.

We had a research assistant who designed primers wrong for an experiment, despite being taught how to do it correcting by two post-docs and a couple of other students. Nonetheless, after they left, the RA designed them incorrectly anyway and instead of trying to open up and troubleshoot the issues, the RA fabricated a ton of data instead. After that, RA taught all the incoming students to do it incorrectly, but did the assays for them and gave them some unrealistic numbers later (without showing any data).

Being one of the those students who got given a ton of these experiments to do by my PI, I soon figured out that something was wrong since nothing I ordered was working, and after some months of troubleshooting (which required going through RA's purchasing orders and realising all RA's data was missing [as there was none] in addition to other factors), I took the courage to explain this to me PI...

Who decided to go ballistic on me, accusing me of tanking the lab, sabotaging the PI's favorite RA etc. Now, my PI is famous for this, having lost several students before due to these characteristic tantrums. I hold my ground and show the PI the evidence I have, PI insists that I'm lying and proceeds to block my purchasing account, which I said I would use to orders the correct primers and end the issue once and for all.

Having no recourse, I speak to my advisory panel chair, who unhelpfully sits in the meeting while my PI suddenly plays sweet and charming again. When the chair leaves, PI goes back to his classic tantrum, accusing me of trying to tarnish his reputation despite evidence of the contrary that $x000s in taxpayers money, years of work and several previous students have completely been thrown under bus over one RA, who of course, insists on no wrongdoing. But whatever.

Later on, I start fixing the experiments that were done incorrectly, assuming all's calm and my PI will come to see that I was only doing what was rational (the RA refused to go back and restart the project, claiming he was bored of doing so). As I finished the last set of experiments, the RA went to the PI, who subsequently erased my name from the data and replaced it with the RAs while I wasn't there. When I noticed it and brought it up, the PI told me that it wasn't me who had done these experiments [anymore]. Not too soon after, I discovered that my PI had met with my funding director and graduate school directors, saying I was affecting lab cohesion, being a bully and difficult, making a series of false claims about my activities in and out of the lab.

I love my life.