Posted on 01/24/2006 6:05:17 PM PST by tallhappy
A Norwegian researcher dreamed up the lives and lifestyles of some 900 people — and used them in a study on cancer. Then, last October, Jon Sudbø had his results published in The Lancet.
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Last week, Sudbø, who is based at the Norwegian Radium Hospital in Oslo, admitted that the data had not come from that database or any other, but from thin air. Unfortunately we are unable to provide accessible alternative text for this. If you require assistance to access this image, or to obtain a text description, please contact npg@nature.com
Many details of this case still need to be worked out. There is some indication that Sudbø may have mental health problems. It is also not clear what his 13 co-authors knew about the fraud — the paper identifies three others as contributing equally to the research, and among the other co-authors are Sudbø's wife and his identical twin. None of the authors could be reached for comment.
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And this is about oral cancer, a quite serious issue.
Maybe this will lead to more admissions.
Like the alleged 100,000 Iraqis killed since the US toppled Saddam.....
Have you seen this thread?
"Poll: Afghans, Iraqis most optimistic"
We can only wish.............
Thanks Justanobody for the alert!!!!!!
There is a guy at work that rants about the Bush administration ignoring scientific research. I love sending him articles like this. Even though this isn't proof that even a smidgen of scientific research is bad; I just love to see the guy's reaction. I'm bad that way... BTW - The South Korean guy was the gift that kept giving.
Glad you liked it!! ;*)
Maybe they don't exist either.
The real story here is the astounding degree to which some of the major medical journals have abandoned any pretense of service to science, in favor of advocacy journalism parroting the left-wing political meme of the week.
-ccm
The Lancet,along with the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal Of The American Medical Association are the three most widely read and highly respected medical periodicals in the world.
Given this,the physician involved could have seriously harmed many by means of his deception.
LOL! I will keep my eyes open for you. Nothing better than keeping them hopping! ;*)
Now he can move on to environmental science and global warming.
when is the world going to wake up to the fact that liberal scientists have been making up data for 50 years, to forward their agendas.
am I the only one not surprised by this? my whole life it's been something is good for you... followed by no.. it's gonna kill you! one fake study after another promising the moon. Meanwhile I just live my life the way I wish, eat what I want in moderation, do what I want, and never get sick, and stay happy and healthy all the time, while shaking my head at all the idiots that run from one fad to another or spend their entire lives eating rice cakes or on a machine in the gym.
Dan rather insists that results are still accurate!
Lancet was bogus as hell on that one. It looks like they were fooled on this one.
Thought this might be interesting.
I sent him the "Save the Pacific Northwest Octopus" link the other day. for a few minutes he thought I jumped the fence to his side. Then he caught on. He wasn't too happy. A few hours later I got an email about how dumb Bush was. Nice retort. LOL.
Actually the story here is that this fact is finally coming out at all..............it has been being said for a long time, most often about the Lancet, but never gets reported.
Yep. Thing is, peer review for publication is not really set up to detect when the entire body of data is falsified. It does detect flaws in theory, terminology, and overall grasp of the subject matter, but without recreating the entire procedure for gathering the raw data one is left with spot-checks and trust. This isn't the first time and won't be the last.
What you said.......
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