Are the (Muslim) hadeeth of Muhammad unreliable?

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The sayings and stories of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) are known as the hadeeth, and his way of life is known as the Sunna.... But alot of western scholars say that the hadeeth are corrupted and many were made up after Muhammad's death... In the Qur'an, it says the Qur'an can never be altered and God will be sure of this, but it says no such thing about the hadeeth...

A hadith is deemed reliable if it meets certain conditions.

Many have been branded as unreliable because they fail to meet these conditions.

a large portion likely are indeed.
the qu'ran, hadeeth and all other holy books of all religions are written down years, decades, sometimes centuries after the events depicted in them happened.
telling stories father-to-son for that long will inevitably change them a bit: embellish them, your own morals and explanations will sneak in.

this is not to say that they are untrue, the core can be actual (although i personally don't believe in them, but that's a different story), any attempt to take any holy book (or written record of any kind) from that long ago literally is denying the truth: they *are* changed trough the years, simply by time, but also by translations (although for the qu'ran/hadeeth this is less of a factor).
Due to this: they all are unreliable, but not nessecarily untrue at the core

Whether it was Mohammed, or one of his contemporaries who said it, doesn't really matter to me. i don't care what some man 1500 years ago said. It was a different time and isn't applicable to life today.

He ate pork pig bacon.