So... the mechanical details are that the authors of the paper w/ fake data said that Rossi did the study for them when asked about it.

She wasn't an author, so she had no reason to be involved w/ (for example) the referee process. She was made aware that this was their claim when someone contacted her.

She also works in a slightly different literature IMO. Even if she had read the article, it probably didn't say "the data gathering was done by Prof. Rossi at UCLA"