Zeno Swijtink
03-24-2009, 03:28 PM
Serious Medical Fraud
In an earlier Chance News wiki can be found a detailed treatment of the scientific fraud perpetrated by Eric Poehlman of the University of Vermont. In that same issue of Chance News there is a discussion of Poehlman predecessors who, it is claimed, were even more egregious producers of fraudulent data. But now we have another contender for the title, Scott S. Reuben of Tufts University and Baystate Medical Center.
According to Anesthesiology News,
Scott S. Reuben, MD, of Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Mass., a pioneer in the area of multimodal analgesia, is said to have fabricated his results in at least 21, and perhaps many more, articles dating back to 1996. The confirmed articles were published in Anesthesiology, Anesthesia and Analgesia, the Journal of Clinical Anesthesia and other titles, which have retracted the papers or will soon do so, according to people familiar with the scandal. The journals stressed that Dr. Reuben's co-authors on those papers have not been accused of wrongdoing.
In addition to allegedly falsifying data, Dr. Reuben seems to have committed publishing forgery. Evan Ekman, MD, an orthopedic surgeon in Columbia, S.C., said his name appeared as a co-author on at least two of the retracted papers, despite his having had no hand in the manuscripts. "My names were forgeries on the documents," Dr. Ekman told Anesthesiology News.
The reason Reuben’s fraud is so serious is because ...
cont at Chance News 45 - ChanceWiki (https://chance.dartmouth.edu/chancewiki/index.php/Chance_News_45#Serious_Medical_Fraud)
In an earlier Chance News wiki can be found a detailed treatment of the scientific fraud perpetrated by Eric Poehlman of the University of Vermont. In that same issue of Chance News there is a discussion of Poehlman predecessors who, it is claimed, were even more egregious producers of fraudulent data. But now we have another contender for the title, Scott S. Reuben of Tufts University and Baystate Medical Center.
According to Anesthesiology News,
Scott S. Reuben, MD, of Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Mass., a pioneer in the area of multimodal analgesia, is said to have fabricated his results in at least 21, and perhaps many more, articles dating back to 1996. The confirmed articles were published in Anesthesiology, Anesthesia and Analgesia, the Journal of Clinical Anesthesia and other titles, which have retracted the papers or will soon do so, according to people familiar with the scandal. The journals stressed that Dr. Reuben's co-authors on those papers have not been accused of wrongdoing.
In addition to allegedly falsifying data, Dr. Reuben seems to have committed publishing forgery. Evan Ekman, MD, an orthopedic surgeon in Columbia, S.C., said his name appeared as a co-author on at least two of the retracted papers, despite his having had no hand in the manuscripts. "My names were forgeries on the documents," Dr. Ekman told Anesthesiology News.
The reason Reuben’s fraud is so serious is because ...
cont at Chance News 45 - ChanceWiki (https://chance.dartmouth.edu/chancewiki/index.php/Chance_News_45#Serious_Medical_Fraud)