From the British Medical Journal
Research authorities insisted that fraud was rare, didn’t matter because science was self-correcting, and that no patients had suffered because of scientific fraud. All those reasons for not taking research fraud seriously have proved to be false, and, 40 years on from Lock’s concerns, we are realising that the problem is huge, the system encourages fraud, and we have no adequate way to respond.
What an indictment of “scientific research.”
And the welfare of the patient and potential for harm done to actual individuals as a result of this fraud, doesn’t even seem to be on their radar. They simply claim, with no valid basis that I can see, that no patients had suffered due to the fraud. How the heck do they know????
They can’t.