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posted by martyb on Wednesday October 17 2018, @10:58PM   Printer-friendly
from the Fraudulent-Humanities-Studies dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/health/piero-anversa-fraud-retractions.html

A prominent cardiologist formerly at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston fabricated or falsified data in 31 published studies that should be retracted, officials at the institutions have concluded.

The cardiologist, Dr. Piero Anversa, produced research suggesting that damaged heart muscle could be regenerated with stem cells, a type of cell that can transform itself into a variety of other cells.

Although other laboratories could not reproduce his findings, the work led to the formation of start-up companies to develop new treatments for heart attacks and stroke, and inspired a clinical trial funded by the National Institutes of Health.

"A couple of papers may be alarming, but 31 additional papers in question is almost unheard-of," said Benoit Bruneau, associate director of cardiovascular research at the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco. "It is a lab's almost entire body of work, and therefore almost an entire field of research, put into question."

[...] A study published in the journal Circulation by Dr. Anversa was retracted in 2014 after co-authors wrote to the journal saying the data in the paper were not data they had generated. Dr. Anversa left Harvard and Brigham and Women's in 2015.

Despite the troubling questions that had been raised about the stem cell work, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute began a clinical trial of injected stem cells for patients with heart failure.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 18 2018, @03:17PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 18 2018, @03:17PM (#750485)

    Your solution is to give the same people who have been skipping replications more money? You are rewarding incompetence.