NewsBlog: Fraud: Journals must act now Posted by Richard Gallagher [Entry posted at 16th January 2006 07:32 PM GMT] Today?s science fraud revelation is that a study published in The Lancet, purportedly demonstrating that common painkillers could protect against oral cancer, was pure fiction. The response of The Lancet Editor Richard Horton, as quoted by the BBC "The peer-review process is good at picking up poorly designed studies, but it is not designed to pick up fabricated... Click to continue Comment on this blog

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