Back in January an article in the European Heart Journal raising the disturbing possibility that guidelines based on fraudulent research may have been responsible for as many as 800,000 deaths was “disappeared” from the journal’s website only minutes after being published. The journal’s editor claimed the article had not been properly peer reviewed. In its place the editors published an editorial refuting the claims of the article, though of course they were responding to an article that no one could then actually read. Now, eight months later, a revised version of the original article, by British cardiologists and gadflies Graham Cole and Darrel Francis, has finally been published. The new version raises even more disturbing questions about the potentially lethal effects of such fraudulent research not only on clinical practice but on the credibility and worth of the entire scientific enterprise.
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