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Swedish Central Ethics Review Board finds Macchiarini guilty of misconduct, requests retraction of 6

Discussion in 'Health News and Research unrelated to ME/CFS' started by Cheshire, Oct 30, 2017.

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  1. Cheshire

    Cheshire Moderator Staff Member

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    https://forbetterscience.com/2017/1...f-misconduct-requests-retraction-of-6-papers/

    Reminder: 2 of the 6 articles were published in The Lancet (who published The PACE trial main paper)
     
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    Sorry, if this question seems stupid, but I never heard of this Macchiarini before - interesting!

    Is there a connection to ME? Or is there another intention (e.g. with respect to the Lancet and its quality)?
     
    Inara, Oct 30, 2017
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    Has this been covered on retraction watch?
     
    Alvin, Oct 30, 2017
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    Andy, Jun 27, 2018
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    Over to you Mr Horton :bag:
     
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    The Lancet is retracting!

    The Lancet: The final verdict on Paolo Macchiarini: guilty of misconduct

    In this issue, we are retracting two papers by Paolo Macchiarini and co-authors after receiving requests to do so from the new President of the Karolinska Institute (KI), Ole Petter Ottersen.

    ETA: I am tagging you @dave30th as you might find this of interest
     
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    Hum, so do we have to wait for QMUL and the other academic centers to ask for retraction?
     
    Cheshire, Jul 7, 2018
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    If you tagg after editing, I think it doesn't work, so tagging @dave30th another time just in case.
     
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    Huh, I didn't know that. Thanks, @Cheshire
     
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    That piece from the Lancet was rather less than soul searching.

    Here's their earlier coverage:

    2015: Paolo Macchiarini is not guilty of scientific misconduct
    https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(15)00118-X/fulltext

    2016: Paolo Macchiarini—science in conflict


    https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(16)00341-X/fulltext

    The Lancet takes an 'innocent until proven guilty' approach to scientific misconduct by researchers, seemingly while doing all they can to avoid investigating concerns about their work.
     
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    So does this suggest the PACE authors have to be found guilty of misconduct by their medical bodies to get PACE retracted?

    How do we make this happen?
     
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    Karolinska institutet, where Macchiarini worked, has now had an investigation and it seems the new Rector of the institute, Ole Petter Ottersen, is under suspicion for research misconduct. He was a co-author on a paper in Journal of Neuroscience in 1999, about a specific brain receptor, and three pictures seems to have been duplicated in the same paper. He is highly respected and was hired to get the institute back on track after the Macchiarini-commotion.

    What a mess..

    Khrono: Dagens nyheter: Ottersen mistenkt for forskningsfusk
    google translation: Ottersen suspected of research fraud
     
    Kalliope, Jul 20, 2018
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    Long blog post on some events around the Macchiarini scandal, including events involving COPE.
    https://forbetterscience.com/2019/0...-at-the-lancet/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
     
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    Didn't the Lancet publish a similar piece about how Wakefield was unjustifiably attacked and that they stand by the paper?

    Almost looks like a pattern if you look for, oh... about 3-4 seconds.
     
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    Paywall, https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l6676
     
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