There has been growing concern over fraudulent medical research. It has reached the point where there are now internet websites which exist solely to cover retractions in medical journals.
According to Pharmalot:
“An episode [of 60 Minutes] featured the spectacular crash-and-burn incident involving Duke University and Anil Potti, whose worked was touted as a game changer for cancer research. Interestingly, the scientific papers that Potti published were scoured and skewered, but a Duke committee still determined nothing was out of whack until The Cancer Letter published an item that Potti had a little fib on his resume. Unfortunately, this particular fabrication is what it took to convince enough people that fraud can occur anywhere, even at the best universities.”
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