MADNESS IN THEIR METHOD.

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  • Author(s): Wade, Nicholas
  • Source:
    New Republic. 6/27/83, Vol. 188 Issue 25, p13-17. 5p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      FRAUD in science; MEDICAL research; MEDICAL schools; CLINICAL drug trials; CLINICAL trials; CLINICAL medicine research
    • Abstract:
      Focuses on issues concerning fraud in American scientific institutions. Fabrication of a data on new drugs by Joseph H. Cort, a researcher trained at Harvard and Yale Universities; Release of a report of an inquiry by the National Institutes of Health, into a major research fraud at the Harvard Medical School; Guilty pleading by Harvey M. Lenin, a Philadelphia gynecologist, to falsify results of clinical trials on proposed painkillers; Information on science's vaunted self-correcting system, to detect fraud; Discussion on various science fraud cases.