- Are leading scientists just making stuff up?
- Vinay Prasad breaks down the cancer research scandal.
"A top cancer surgeon at Columbia University is under scrutiny after one of his research papers was retracted for containing suspect data...
He has also found duplications and manipulated data in papers published by researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston that have since been retracted...
Here’s an edited version of our conversation. (Spoiler alert: I was not reassured.)
Here’s an edited version of our conversation. (Spoiler alert: I was not reassured.)
Vinay, how worried should we be about the problem of fraud in cancer research?
Extremely worried.There’s something very unique about all these papers that allows people to find the fraud, and that is they report the raw data, in the form of images...
Most laymen like me assume all the data is transparent in medical research. You’re telling me that’s not how it works?...
These concerns have been brewing for a while and they are reaching a tipping point. The fact that there’s been so much plagiarism at Harvard and there’s been all this image manipulation shows that the most venerable institutions are no safeguard against malfeasance...
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