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Sigh. When you see these bullshit webpages…

… alarms really should go off. You shouldn’t be surprised that people like Bharat B. Aggarwal are under investigation for

fabrication and falsification in a host of published studies [65 and counting, to be precise] about the cancer-fighting properties of plants.

I mean, look at the page, please. This person tells us he has seven professorships:

Member, University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston

Adjunct Professor at Albert B. Alkek Institute of Biosciences and Technology (IBT), Texas A&M University, Houston

Ransom Horne, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Cancer Research

Professor of Cancer Medicine

Professor of Immunology

Professor of Biochemistry and Professor of Experimental Therapeutics

Chief, Cytokine Research Section, in the Department of Experimental Therapeutics at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas

He’s published over six hundred papers… Of course, this number doesn’t raise eyebrows because other med professors say they’ve published a thousand… two thousand… a zillion squared…. When you’re one of thirty authors listed at the top of a page, when you’re a lab chief who probably did squat on most of the studies, the sky’s the limit. Go for it.

You’re seven professors at once, and you’ve published six hundred papers, and you’ve been invited to give 324 lectures in fifty countries… But you still have time to

[manipulate your] images – adding or subtracting features, cropping, stretching, rotating, flipping horizontally or vertically – to leave the impression the same ones represented different experimental conditions.

Margaret Soltan, February 24, 2012 10:35PM
Posted in: march of science

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2 Responses to “Sigh. When you see these bullshit webpages…”

  1. dmf Says:

    it’s all about the grant money and that’s all about politics

  2. Crystal Says:

    My father was a cancer patient at MDACC several years ago and bought Dr. Aggarwal’s line of BS in its entirety. It makes me angry to think of the meaningful research that went un-funded so his projects could get the money instead. When I read the article in the local paper on Saturday I think my blood pressure doubled.

    Here’s what really stinks – even if the allegations are proven, he probably won’t lose his medical license. What is the world coming to when the licensed accountants police their own better than the doctors?

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