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Mass. doctor pleads guilty to research fraud
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A doctor accused of faking research for a dozen years in published studies that suggested after-surgery benefits from painkillers including Vioxx and Celebrex pleaded guilty Monday to one count of federal health care fraud.
An attorney for Dr. Scott Reuben said the anesthesiologist will have to repay $361,932 in research grants and forfeit assets worth at least $50,000 as penalty for his conduct following a plea hearing in U.S. District Court.
He managed to do this for twelve years before he was caught. He was wrong, but so were the magazines publishing the results, the local hospital that was supposed to check the results, and Pfizer for claiming they just gave the money and were not “involved” in the research.
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I don’t know whether the following case is connected with this doctor, but it may be interesting to note. Sad as it sounds, this doctor is probably only a very “small fish” in the shark pool of industry-produced scientific “results”.
Pharma multi Merck produced a whole scientific so-called peer-reviewed “journal”, which was de facto advertising for Merck products:
http://blog.bioethics.net/2009/05/merck-makes-phony-peerreview-journal/