Watchdog Larry Husten at Forbes has chastised the New England Journal of Medicine for its failure to retract two papers by the Dutch researcher Don Poldermans, whose work was found deficient in an investigation by the Erasmus Medical Center, where he had been a leading researcher.
“Back in August the NEJM editors decided not to retract the papers or publish an expression of concern. But they did add an ‘Editor’s note’ to the articles referring readers to a Dutch investigation into the studies,” Husten wrote.
The Erasmus investigators, Husten reports, “found a number of troubling discrepancies between the trial conduct and the written protocol found in the archive of the Medical Ethics Committee,” but they “did not find hard evidence of falsified data.”
Husten cites Retraction Watch in his piece, and Retraction Watch cites Husten. Follow the links in Husten’s post and at RW for a walk back through a disturbing tale.
-Paul Raeburn
Larry Husten — credit to his Knight Fellowship family.
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