Potential for fraudulent manipulation of medical images using CS5?

This is an unusual issue that I would welcome comment upon. A recent scientific paper in a peer-reviewed medical journal on Diagnostic Imaging has drawn attention to the fact that medical images produced by Computed Tomographic (CT) scanners can easily be manipulated using Photoshop to alter the diagnostic information produced - so that, for instance, the liver can be 'cured' of evidence of cancer, and, that normal livers can be changed so that they show 'evidence' of cancer. As a Consultant Radiologist and as a photographer who uses CS5, there's no doubt that such manipulations are relatively easy to use, and are, in the right hands, highly convincing.
This clearly has the potential for abuse, both in the presentation of fraudulent research data, and even in the alteration of medical-legal evidence.
I wonder if anyone has any thoughts as to how this potential for serious abuse could be managed? Is it possible, for instance, to 'tag' images so that there is an indelible 'paper-trail' of manipulation, so that any image carries am audit trail of what has happened to it, or has this potentially nasty horse already bolted?

Abuse and fraud in research papers can happen anywhere in the line of contribution, not just in manipulating images. There are strict guidelines in all the respected journals as to what photo-manipulations are ok (global color, contrast and brightness adjustments are fine... to a point). Clone Stamp Tool and Healing Brush are not. Of course some people use the editing tools ethically (remove a piece of dust or a scratch on a slide, or adjust the vignetting of a microscope image). Researchers I work with take their presensation of data seriously. The consequences are severe if any lab or researcher is caught falsifying data.
But like Jeff said, Photoshop did not make it possible to “fake” data, it just made it easier. People have been manipulating images from the the get-go. For example this iconic picture of Linclon is Lincoln's head "photoshopped" onto John Calhoun's body, circa 1860. Or the first well known multi-image photo-composite by Oscar Rejlander in 1857! (Two Ways of Life) something like 32 individual images make up that early composite.
I saw a demo a while back at a PhotoshopWorld conference (2006 in Las Vegas?) of software that could examine an image to detect areas of "cloning" . Not sure what came of that, but I'm sure there is some diagnostic software that could be used on questionable images. Still, at some point, trust in professionals (scientists, researchers, photographers) comes into play.
EDIT:
I just saw that Chris Cox had a link to Rejlander!
Here is another Rejlander from 1858: The Head of St. John the Baptist (on a platter)

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