Scientific fraud published in reputable medical journals has soared more than 1700 percent since 2004, says report
by: Ethan A. Huff
NaturalNews.com
Friday, May 06, 2016
The alleged gold standard of the double-blind, peer-reviewed scientific study is not looking so gold these days, especially after a recent report in The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) unearthed some of the scandalous secrets hiding in plain sight in modern science. Such secrets, say investigators, include rampant fraud being peddled as sound science in supposedly reputable, peer-reviewed medical journals.
According to data compiled from Thomson Reuters Web of Science, an index of more than 11,000 peer-reviewed journals from around the world, the number of scientific studies retracted for error or fraud from scientific journals worldwide has skyrocketed more than 15-fold since 2001. And many of these studies contained blatant deception and lies published as scientific fact, a growing trend that many experts worry is tainting the once-respected field of modern science.
Worse, an analysis published in the Journal of Medical Ethics found that retractions specifically involving fraud increased by more than 1700 percent between 2004 and 2009, which exceeded the rate increase of simple error-related retractions. More than a quarter of retracted medicine and biology studies published between 2000 and 2010 involved fraud, according to analyst Grant Steen.
Beyond simply thwarting the trust of millions of doctors and patients across the globe, the continued exposure of scientific fraud to the light of day also shows that millions of patients are being put at serious risk as well. After all, when a doctor reviews a corrupt, journal-published study and adopts its findings as fact, his patients end up bearing the damaging consequences, which can include serious injury or death.
Examples of serious fraud in peer-reviewed medical studies
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