How Pseudoscientists Are Exposed: The US Experience In The Medical Industry

Inaccurate medical research can be harmful to people's health.

The Medical Evidence Project - "The Medical Evidence Project" - has been launched in the United States to combat scientific fraud in the medical field. The Center for Scientific Integrity initiative monitors scientific research and notifies specialized publications about authors caught cheating, writes Le Monde.

Research triggers a process that in academia is called retraction or "retraction" - the official withdrawal of a scientific publication. The consequences for unscrupulous scientists in such a case are very serious. They face dismissal from their positions and a damaged reputation in the academic environment.

Falsification of medical research provokes not only ethical dilemmas. Such actions can also have lethal consequences. For example, the DECREASE series of Dutch clinical trials confirmed that administering β-blockers before surgery reduced mortality. They were even used as the basis for official recommendations for European medical institutions. Inspection of the studies showed that they were fabricated. Graphs and databases are fictitious, protocols are missing. When the effect of β-blockers was checked in this study, it turned out that they increase the risk of mortality by 27%.

The Medical Evidence Project is organized as follows. A network of whistle-blowers - so-called whistle-blowers or whistleblowers - has been established. There is an anonymous channel for reporting fraudulent scientific publications. Experts of the Center for Scientific Integrity check these reports and if the facts are confirmed, they inform publications and contact scientific and governmental institutions. The Retraction Watch platform publishes this information.

The Center for Scientific Integrity uses, for example, statistical, visual and algorithmic methods of data analysis for monitoring, which allows for instrumental verification of graphs, numerical data, publication structure and the like. The Open Philanthropy Foundation has awarded a two-year, $900,000 grant for the program. But the initiative existed before. Retraction Watch's database of falsified research now includes tens of thousands of dishonest publications. Academic integrity experts at the Center for Scientific Integrity also publish information about materials actually generated by artificial intelligence.

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