Top Harvard Cancer Researchers Accused of Scientific Fraud

[1srelluc]

Top Harvard cancer researchers accused of scientific fraud; 37 studies affected

Researchers accused of manipulating data images with copy-and-paste.

arstechnica.com

Amid the institute's internal review, Rollins said the institute identified 38 studies in which DFCI researchers are primarily responsible for potential manipulation. The institute is seeking retraction of six studies and is contacting scientific publishers to correct 31 others, totaling 37 studies. The one remaining study of the 38 is still being reviewed.

Of the remaining 19 studies identified by David, three were cleared of manipulation allegations, and 16 were determined to have had the data in question collected at labs outside of DFCI. Those studies are still under investigation, Rollins told The Harvard Crimson. "Where possible, the heads of all of the other laboratories have been contacted and we will work with them to see that they correct the literature as warranted,” Rollins wrote in a statement.

Despite finding false data and manipulated images, Rollins pressed that it doesn't necessarily mean that scientific misconduct occurred, and the institute has not yet made such a determination. The "presence of image discrepancies in a paper is not evidence of an author's intent to deceive," Rollins wrote. "That conclusion can only be drawn after a careful, fact-based examination which is an integral part of our response. Our experience is that errors are often unintentional and do not rise to the level of misconduct."

The very simple methods used to manipulate the DFCI data are remarkably common among falsified scientific studies, however. Data sleuths have gotten better and better at spotting such lazy manipulations, including copied-and-pasted duplicates that are sometimes rotated and adjusted for size, brightness, and contrast. As Ars recently reported, all journals from the publisher Science now use an AI-powered tool to spot just this kind of image recycling because it is so common.


Well, when you do a diversity hire for President of your institution and then are perfectly okay with kicking kids out of the school for plagiarism but are okay with the leader of your institution plagiarizing left and right, what do you expect?

Trust the science they said, it will be fine they said.

Entrepreneurial medicine pursuits predominate medicine.....Cancer treatment is their top pursuit.

 

[The Duke]

Top Harvard cancer researchers accused of scientific fraud; 37 studies affected

Researchers accused of manipulating data images with copy-and-paste.

arstechnica.com

Amid the institute's internal review, Rollins said the institute identified 38 studies in which DFCI researchers are primarily responsible for potential manipulation. The institute is seeking retraction of six studies and is contacting scientific publishers to correct 31 others, totaling 37 studies. The one remaining study of the 38 is still being reviewed.

Of the remaining 19 studies identified by David, three were cleared of manipulation allegations, and 16 were determined to have had the data in question collected at labs outside of DFCI. Those studies are still under investigation, Rollins told The Harvard Crimson. "Where possible, the heads of all of the other laboratories have been contacted and we will work with them to see that they correct the literature as warranted,” Rollins wrote in a statement.

Despite finding false data and manipulated images, Rollins pressed that it doesn't necessarily mean that scientific misconduct occurred, and the institute has not yet made such a determination. The "presence of image discrepancies in a paper is not evidence of an author's intent to deceive," Rollins wrote. "That conclusion can only be drawn after a careful, fact-based examination which is an integral part of our response. Our experience is that errors are often unintentional and do not rise to the level of misconduct."

The very simple methods used to manipulate the DFCI data are remarkably common among falsified scientific studies, however. Data sleuths have gotten better and better at spotting such lazy manipulations, including copied-and-pasted duplicates that are sometimes rotated and adjusted for size, brightness, and contrast. As Ars recently reported, all journals from the publisher Science now use an AI-powered tool to spot just this kind of image recycling because it is so common.


Well, when you do a diversity hire for President of your institution and then are perfectly okay with kicking kids out of the school for plagiarism but are okay with the leader of your institution plagiarizing left and right, what do you expect?

Trust the science they said, it will be fine they said.
Entrepreneurial medicine pursuits predominate medicine.

Cancer treatment is their top pursuit.

Was it done to suppress biologics in favor of radiation and chemo treatment?

I remember some years back, an Asian doctor in the UK said he found cures for 6 different types of cancer,

and I saw it on the news that night, and have never heard anything about it since.

 

[1srelluc]

Was it done to suppress biologics in favor of radiation and chemo treatment?

Follow the money. Which regimen produces the biggest profits?

 

[The Duke]

Follow the money. Which regimen produces the biggest profits?

Despite killing people left and right.

 

[luiza]

Despite killing people left and right.

Come on .
You are introducing unimportant details .
Money always trumps (!) honesty , decency and unselfishness .

 

[Burgermeister]

Harvard is not what it used to be.

 

[BackAgain]

Thank God it was only cancer research.

It could have been something really crucial like climate science. Lord knows we couldn’t allow that to occur.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

This is Harvard.

I don't know what to think without pronouns.

 

[Lemmi]

They just lost their President to plagiarism charges and now this? Are they going to refund tuition payments to people who want to find a better collegiate match for themselves?

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Was it done to suppress biologics in favor of radiation and chemo treatment?

First there would have to be evidence of any effective "biologics", anywhere, in order for them to be suppressed.

 

[The Duke]

First there would have to be evidence of any effective "biologics", anywhere, in order for them to be suppressed.

Well there kinda is that, dumbass.

Biological therapy for cancer - Mayo Clinic

www.mayoclinic.org

Something tell me this is what that asian dude in the UK was talking about that 1 night on the news.

 

[DudleySmith]

Some estimates are that some 35% of doctoral theses contain fake data. This carries over into practice.

Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials. How many studies are faked or flawed?

Investigations suggest that, in some fields, at least one-quarter of clinical trials might be problematic or even entirely made up, warn some researchers. They urge stronger scrutiny.

www.nature.com

Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials. How many studies are faked or flawed? Investigations suggest that, in some fields, at least one-quarter of clinical trials might be problematic or even entirely made up, warn some researchers. They urge stronger scrutiny.​

Stanford researchers uncover patterns in how scientists lie about their data

When scientists falsify data, they try to cover it up by writing differently in their published works. A pair of Stanford researchers have devised a way of identifying these written clues.

news.stanford.edu

Stanford researchers uncover patterns in how scientists lie about their data​

Of course with 'lgbtrxcvks' studies around 100% of current official' data is faked. It's 'unscientific' to publish anything negative about deviants and faggots.