The need for a national body for research misconduct

BMJ 1998;316:1686-1687 ( 6 June )

Editorials

The need for a national body for research misconduct

Nothing less will reassure the public

News p 1695 Education and debate p 1726 Personal view p 1755

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The British medical research community is busy assembling its response to research misconduct. The question is no longer,"Do we have a problem?" but rather, "How can we best respond?"The BMJ has thus commissioned five answers to the question (p1726),¹ two from people outside Britain with extensive experienceof research misconduct. One recurrent theme is that Britain needsa central body to lead on this difficult issue.

The answers are published in a week when we have to retract yet another article because of probable fraud (p 1700).² One of the authors of the retracted paper was recently struck offby the General Medical Council for research misconduct. ³ ⁴ He had also lied about his qualifications. Cameron Bowie, hiscoauthor, then started from the inevitable assumption that allof the rest of his work was fraudulent until proved otherwiseand found that he could not satisfy himself that his . . . [Full text of this article]

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