Update (September 13): H. Gilbert Welch announced his resignation from Dartmouth College today. “I feel that I can no longer participate in the research misconduct process against me—as I fear my participation only serves to validate it,” he writes in an email to colleagues, STAT News reported.
When Dartmouth College Professor H. Gilbert Welch published a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2016 arguing that mammograms can lead to the treatment of non-life-threatening tumors, he was “appropriating the ideas, processes, results or words of Complainants without giving them appropriate credit,” according to a letter by Dartmouth Interim Provost David Kotz, obtained by Retraction Watch and STAT News.
Welch and his colleagues argued that mammograms are more likely to lead to unnecessary treatment than to save lives, drawing headlines from the press and citations from fellow researchers. In fact, the NEJM paper ranks in the top 1 percent ...
