Every fifth scientific study may be wrong

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Humanity is threatened by a whole wave of false medical clinical research , which put the lives of thousands of people at risk. Experts have found that every fifth study published annually contains either artificially fabricated results or outright plagiarism.

A few decades ago in the British Journal Of Obstetrics, a study was published in which an obstetrician from St George's Hospital Medical School in London performed a real miracle.

He successfully extracted an embryo from a woman suffering from an ectopic (extrauterine) pregnancy. , and then implanted it in the uterus. And later, a healthy baby was born.

This became a real sensation, and many women with ectopic pregnancy had Hope. However, shortly after the publication of this study in 1995, other employees of the same medical center contacted the journal and reported that the whole story was completely fabricated.

The investigation showed that the obstetrician surgeon simply changed the computer records and mixed up the information on the deceased woman and another one who had a miscarriage (combining two patients into one) in order to create an additional completely fictitious patient.

This surgeon was later found guilty of a gross violation of professional standards and stripped of his license. This story is not at all exceptional. A group of very authoritative experts recently published their calculations, which show that every fifth (!) of 2 million clinical studies published annually contain either plagiarism, or data on patients that never existed, or the results of tests that were not conducted.

Moreover, this problem is very well known in scientific circles, but it still cannot be taken seriously. According to experts, there is only one way to prevent the development of this trend – it is necessary to review all published studies, in respect of which there is evidence that it is a fake, and remove them from publication, if the contrary is not proven.