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Journalists from two German media outlets, the daily Süddeutsche Zeitung and the public radio NDR, published in a journal
scientist a fake
cancer study, as part of an extensive survey of unscrupulous publications.
Their purpose was to demonstrate that anyone, on condition of paying, could pbad "false science" for
Publication accepted in ten days
Journalists have reported to the journal Journal of Integrative Oncology the alleged results "of a clinical study showing that propolis extract was more effective on colorectal cancer than conventional chemotherapy ". Propolis is a resinous substance derived from trees.
"The study was fictitious, the manufactured data and the authors, affiliated to an imaginary research institute, did not exist either," says the daily The World . The publication was accepted in less than ten days and published on April 24.
An inquiry soon to be opened?
Anja Karliczek, the German Minister for Research, said she was in favor of opening an investigation which would shed light on the reasons that led to the publication of this false study. "It's in the interest of science itself," she said, quoted by the German news agency DPA.
According to Le Monde these are "dozens unscrupulous publishing houses "who" have created hundreds of free-access journals with a snoring name, with all the finery of real scholarly journals ". They tackle a multitude of scientific disciplines without any control on the quality of the works presented and claim to the authors "few hundred euros" by article
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