YOUTUBE, ANNEWSThe Expert Group on Scientific Misconduct at Sweden’s Central Ethics Review Board (CEPN) has found evidence of scientific misconduct in all six of Paolo Macchiarini’s synthetic trachea transplantation publications it reviewed. The papers reported on the implantations of three patients with artificial tracheae—all of whom died.
“[T]he transplantations are described successfully in the articles, which is not the fact,” the Expert Group on Scientific Misconduct said in a statement last week (October 27). “The Expert Group also establish[ed] that the information in the articles are misleading and beautifying regarding the patients conditions and furthermore that information has been withhold in this purpose and that this constitutes scientific misconduct. In addition, there is false information of ethical approval, which also constitute[s] scientific misconduct.” The group—composed of University of Uppsala professor of surgery Martin Björck and Detlev Ganten, a professor emeritus of pharmacology and former CEO of the Charité—recommends the retraction of all six articles.
The report, released on October 20, further concluded that it was not just Macchiarini who was at fault, ...
