FLICKR, NERISSA'S RINGA 1989 study from R.K. Chandra, a Canadian nutrition scientist and accused fraudster, is being retracted from the literature, 20 years after an institutional investigation concluded that Chandra had committed scientific misconduct.
“This 30 year saga highlights a collective failure to defend the integrity of science. It is shameful that the university, Canadian authorities, and other scientific bodies have taken no action against Chandra and that it has been left to the mass media to expose his fraud,” BMJ editor in chief, Fiona Godlee, and former editor in chief, Richard Smith, wrote in an editorial.
The media outlet they are referring to is the CBC, which aired a three-part documentary in 2006 exposing accusations about Chandra’s alleged misdeeds. Only after the 2015 conclusion of a lawsuit—in which Chandra accused the CBC of libel, and lost—did the BMJ obtain the 1995 report from Memorial University of Newfoundland.
“The BMJ is retracting the paper because of the 1995 report, ...
