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Margaret McCartney: Is Jeremy Hunt our colleague?

BMJ 2015; 351 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h5995 (Published 06 November 2015) Cite this as: BMJ 2015;351:h5995

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Re: Margaret McCartney: Is Jeremy Hunt our colleague?

It is somewhat ironic that a medical academic is castigated for research fraud (http://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h6058?etoc=) whereas a politician is allowed to manipulate data to their own ends free from fear of censure.

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13 November 2015
Paul Pharoah
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology
University of Cambridge
Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge