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Update (September 14): Cancer researcher José Baselga resigned yesterday from Memorial Sloan Kettering following reports of his failure to disclosure payments from health care companies, The New York Times reports.
Since 2013, José Baselga, a world-renowned cancer researcher at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, has received millions of dollars from drug and health care companies but has not disclosed the financial connections in research articles, according to an investigation by The New York Times and Pro Publica published Saturday (September 8).
One of the most flagrant omissions was Baselga’s failure to follow the rules of disclosure from the American Association for Cancer Research, even when he served as president of the organization. The association puts out Cancer Discovery, a journal in which Baselga published without declaring the payments he received. He also served as the journal’s editor-in-chief at the time.
Another major lapse, according to ...
