Dishonesty in medical research.

نویسنده

  • Peter Wilmshurst
چکیده

The President: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. We are in for another treat. Having had dinner this evening with our speaker, Dr Peter Wilmshurst, I can assure you that he is a man of many parts. He is a cardiologist at Shrewsbury and was formerly at St Thomas's. I think he has been irritated by the comments in the media about expert witnesses, because he said to me in an e-mail, " I will justify my ability to speak on this subject during the course of the talk. " He is going to speak on misconduct in medical research or " Dishonesty in Medical Research ". He is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics and received an award from HealthWatch in London " for challenging misconduct in medical research ". Peter, please give your talk; we would be most grateful. Dr Wilmshurst: Thank you very much for asking me to speak about dishonesty in medical research. Research fraud is just one of the types of fraud we come across in medicine. It may involve falsification of data, falsification of approval from Research Ethics Committees, falsification of documentation relating to use of radioactive isotopes (such as ARSAC certificates), and even falsification of Clinical Trial Certificates by a pharmaceutical company. People who falsify their research often have a history of other types of dishonesty, including cheating in examinations, plagiarism, falsification of qualifications, financial fraud and falsification of audit data. Today I want to present to you examples of most of these types of dishonesty. My main concern is not that some doctors and some researchers are dishonest, because in any profession there will be some dishonest people. My main concern is that within the medical profession there is a failure to deal with the misconduct and that is illustrated in the examples I will present. We do not know how common research fraud is, but there is some data. In 1988, when he was the editor of the BMJ, Stephen Lock published a survey in which he asked academics in the UK about their experience of fraud in medical research (Lock 1988). Half were aware of cases of research fraud, but in only 8% of the cases was the fraudulent research retracted and only 3% of the fraudsters were dismissed. In 1995 a Scandinavian study reported that 22% of scientists surveyed were aware of research fraud (Bekkelund 1995). The Committee …

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Medico-legal journal

دوره 75 Pt 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2007