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Fraud in radiologic research

1988; American Roentgen Ray Society; Volume: 150; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2214/ajr.150.1.27

1546-3141

P J Friedman,

Radiology practices and education

Research fraud is nothing new. Altering data to fit hypotheses has a long, largely unrecognized history. Modern analyses have shown that respectable figures from the archives of science, such as Galileo, Mendel, and Newton, improved their results by various manipulations that do not meet contemporary standards of accurate reporting. Wholesale invention of data also has occurred in the remote as well as the recent past. Broad and Wade [1 ] detail these and a host of other examples of the failure of science to live up to its ideals of truth and objectivity. One’s reaction on reading about these major and minor cases of misrepresentation or fraud is to think, “It can’t happen here.” But indeed it has happened in radiology, just as it has in other biomedical fields. The following case report concerns a person who is well known in radiology, but I have chosen to call him “Dr. A” in order to emphasize the general aspects of the problem rather than focus on issues specific to this case.