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Bipolar researcher failed to disclose fees from drug companies
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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 163673" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Well, that's blown HIS credibility right out of the water.</p><p></p><p>I really get cranky with this sort of thing. I thought only naive researchers who don't know the ropes or who think it's OK to rort the system (because they aren't sufficiently experienced) did this sort of thing. The last time I saw this, the researchers claimed naivety and although two of them were at least Associate Professor in rank (and, I would have thought, would have understood the way the research funding system worked especially when you're university-employed) they were believed.</p><p></p><p>And they got away with nothing more than a "don't do it again."</p><p></p><p>I watched - and although they did make changes in their research methodology to try to repair some of the damage, they continued to break the rules (just not so obviously).</p><p></p><p>But that was a very minor research team whose work was invalid (for so many reasons, including fudged results) and the natural course of events occurred - they are no longer doing that research because nobody else was ever able to verify their results, nor demonstrate any value in continuing the study.</p><p></p><p>It seems this sort of thing happens more than we would like to believe. Maybe it's a case of a researcher who thinks he is sufficiently high-profile to be able to get away with things due to nobody else daring to scrutinise his actions?</p><p></p><p>So now what happens, with children he helped diagnose? Does everything he has done now get questioned? is it all going to get discredited? And of so, what then?</p><p></p><p>Or if not, what if he really did get it badly wrong, and many children are taking medications that are not truly needed?</p><p></p><p>If only these idiots would really think before they broke the rules, then there wouldn't be so much waste of time, resources, energy and credibility.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 163673, member: 1991"] Well, that's blown HIS credibility right out of the water. I really get cranky with this sort of thing. I thought only naive researchers who don't know the ropes or who think it's OK to rort the system (because they aren't sufficiently experienced) did this sort of thing. The last time I saw this, the researchers claimed naivety and although two of them were at least Associate Professor in rank (and, I would have thought, would have understood the way the research funding system worked especially when you're university-employed) they were believed. And they got away with nothing more than a "don't do it again." I watched - and although they did make changes in their research methodology to try to repair some of the damage, they continued to break the rules (just not so obviously). But that was a very minor research team whose work was invalid (for so many reasons, including fudged results) and the natural course of events occurred - they are no longer doing that research because nobody else was ever able to verify their results, nor demonstrate any value in continuing the study. It seems this sort of thing happens more than we would like to believe. Maybe it's a case of a researcher who thinks he is sufficiently high-profile to be able to get away with things due to nobody else daring to scrutinise his actions? So now what happens, with children he helped diagnose? Does everything he has done now get questioned? is it all going to get discredited? And of so, what then? Or if not, what if he really did get it badly wrong, and many children are taking medications that are not truly needed? If only these idiots would really think before they broke the rules, then there wouldn't be so much waste of time, resources, energy and credibility. Marg [/QUOTE]
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