Posted on 01/18/2006 10:06:53 PM PST by neverdem
Edited on 01/19/2006 12:35:14 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
A large study concluding that anti-inflammatory drugs reduce the risk of oral cancer was based on fabricated data, according to The Lancet, the prominent British medical journal that published the report last year.
The principal author was Jon Sudbo, a cancer researcher at the Norwegian Radium Hospital in Oslo. He had four co-authors at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and another at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
"A spokeswoman for the [National Cancer] institute said yesterday that she could not confirm it had provided the financing. She noted that $10 million was a minute slice of the agency's budget."
Hey, what's $10 million anyway! Play money... /s
The NCI annual budget (taxpayer/donation funded) is around $5 billion.
http://www3.cancer.gov/admin/fmb/
I'm sure the good doctor would say that the paper was forged but accurate.
WOW! The NYT does a story about a made-up study.
investigation that will also look at whether patients suffered from Sudbo's recommendations...Lowlife scientists who have been proven to falsify data should face criminal charges for willfully endangering patients' lives.The hospital said that he made up patients for the apparent review of 454 people with oral cancer. Sudbo's motives for the alleged falsifications are unknown...
The commission, due to report back by April 1, would also examine why none of Sudbo's co-authors or reviewers spotted the errors before the article went to print.
Wonder if oral cancer is one of those affected by the new info on Vitamin D?
Of course, their story is probably also made up.
Hmm. MD Anderson is the best cancer research center in the world. I'm skeptical that FOUR oncologists there would totally fabricate a study.
Why won't President Bush answer the charges?
Thanks for the link!
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