Liar Liar Pants on Fire

For my pic that lies, I decided to do something silly, like a giant adorable kitty attacking me and some other goofy people running away. I call this "You can run, but you can't hide!" from the giant ginger kitty. In order to accomplish this incredible realistic and awesome picture, I had to do a lot of image resizing. The tiny lady running away in the back was originally about 10 inches tall. Which in pictures is big. I also had to use lots of clone tool to get things out of my original picture. The little girl with the bubbles also presented a problem. I knew I wanted her behind me but I was part of the background picture. What I ultimately did was moved my shoulder into another layer and put that on top of her, and then smudged and clone tooled like crazy so it looks like it was still attached to me. I was amazed doing research how many iconic pictures have been altered- especially that one of Abe Lincoln. I mean, yeah he was awkwardly tall but he pulled it off! They didn't have to stick him on smelly old John Calhoun's body. From JSTOR, I found an article from the Journal of Cell Biology called "What's in a Picture: The Temptation of Image Manipulation." It never occurred to me that this would be a problem in the science world. That seems really sick and twisted if people are altering their data, because that compromises the data's reliability, and the author's integrity. 
Here's where you can find the article. I thought it was really cool
Rossner, Mike, and Kenneth M. Yamada. "What's in a Picture? The Temptation of Image Manipulation."Journal of Cell Biology 166.1 (2004): 11-15. Web. 10 Nov 2010.