Tuesday, April 05, 2005

Fake data

An obesity researcher, Eric Poehlman, has admitted to faking data used in published papers. One paper, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in 1995, has been retracted, but has been cited twice since its retraction. There are implications for medical journals and peer review, and for those whose work has used Poehlman's and who have cited him.

Read more in the Scientist of March 21 and March 28.

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