"RESEARCH MISCONDUCT ON THE RISE"

This is the title of a disturbing article published by the Clinical Oncology News, with Victoria Stern reporting.
The report suggested that on average, 2% of scientists surveyed admitted fabricating or falsifying data. And as many as 33% reported to have altered the experiment leading to their conclusion.  This added to our recent report by the CDC that 22 Millions of women reported having had a PAP smear post Hysterectomy.  With a 94% Total Hysterectomies, there is a bunch of  lying going around!

The fascinating thing is this lying is going on in large and small institutions alike.  At Duke University the case reported is that of Anil Potti, MD and Joseph Nevins, PhD.  These two reported scientists told the world they were able to predict patients who would be more likely responding to common chemotherapy using microarray data.  This sensational news was quickly published in a 2006 article in Nature Medicine.
Suffice is to report that following the discovery of this misrepresentation, 11 articles have been retracted, seven corrections have resulted and lawsuits have been filed against the University and the culprit.

And the lying is global.  A dentist by the name of Jon Subdo was also reported to have filed a 100% bogus claim that he followed over 800 patients and concluded that Non steroidal drugs lowered risk of Oral cancer.  The 800 Oslo residents he based on his cavalier conclusion have not been found to this day!

The death of Bone Marrow transplant as way to treat Breast Cancer with high dose therapy was once resurrected by a Brave South African Doctor who reported wonderful results until he was confronted with the truth.  He dreamed up those results we were told!

The question is: why are these things happening?
People want to win it all!  Universities are squeezing their staff?  Or is it the sordid notion that any controversy is good?  Remember though, lies take the elevator, but truth takes the stairs.  So unless the building is being built further, truth always arrive at the top.  Then the liar loses control of the outcome!