WIKIMEDIA COMMONS, JULO
In 2001, a report a UK government-commissioned committee found that 10 published papers on sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) were based on incomplete or falsified autopsies and were thus unreliable. But today, only one of those papers has been retracted, Nature reports.
The investigations began in the late 1990s after it became clear that UK pathologists were harvesting organs and tissue samples from dead children without their parents’ permission. In January 2001, the government-commissioned committee reported that in addition to unethically removing the children’s organs, Dutch pathologist Dick van Velzen of the Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool did not properly complete their autopsy reports, even making up some of the reported data. As a result, the papers he published with his colleagues at the ...
