There is a worrying amount of fraud in medical research And a worrying unwillingness to do anything about it – The Economist
In 2011 Ben Mol, a professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at Monash University, in Melbourne, came across a retraction notice for a study on uterine fibroids and infertility published by a researcher in Egypt. The journal which had published it was retracting it because it contained identical numbers to those in an earlier Spanish study—except that that one had been on uterine polyps. The author, it turned out, had simply copied parts of the polyp paper and changed the disease...
The fabrication of unreality
Dr Mol and his colleagues have sent their concerns about more than 750 papers to the journals that published them. But, all too often, either nothing seems to happen or investigations take years. Only 80 of the studies they have flagged have so far been retracted. Worse, many have been included in systematic reviews—the sort of research round-ups that inform clinical practice. Millions of patients may, as a consequence, be receiving wrong treatments.
My neighbor is retired LEO and he is appalled at some of his fellow people in law enforcement here. Like the Loveland situation where they used excessive force on that lady with Alzheimer’s and then laughed at her. And the cops who stuck a woman in a police car that was on the train tracks, and thankfully the lady didn’t die, but she was hit by the train. Talk about a fubar.
My hand PT guy is a sheriff’s deputy here...I’ll ask him next week. Maybe....he’s a talker and I’m like exercises please!