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L The purpose of the investigation was to demonstrate that anyone, on condition of paying, could pbad "false science" for real.
Journalists in two German media, the daily Süddeutsche Zeitung and the public radio NDR, transmitted to the journal Journal of Integrative Oncology "the results of a clinical study showing that propolis extract was more effective on cancer colorectal than conventional chemotherapy. "
Propolis is a resinous substance derived from trees and transformed by bees to build the cells of their hives.
" The study was fictitious, the data was fabricated, and the authors, affiliated with an imaginary research institute, did not exist either. The publication was nevertheless accepted in less than 10 days and published on April 24, " Le Monde .
The daily's website offers a link to an archived version of this study, which was removed after reviewers were warned
It states that the researchers compared the effectiveness of chemotherapy with propolis capsules. Moreover, the conclusion of the pseudo-scientific article speaks of an unrelated subject, the effect of mbadage on thromboembolic diseases.
The German Minister of Research, Anja Karliczek, expressed support for an investigation to to determine why this false study could have been published
"It is in the interest of science itself," she said, quoted by the German news agency DPA. According to her, everything must be done "so that credibility and trust in science are not affected […] It is good that such errors are brought to light. Because only in this way can we change what is wrong. "
The magazine in question is published by an Indian publisher, Omics. But according to Le Monde it is "dozens of unscrupulous publishers" who "have created hundreds of free-access journals with the name of snoring, having all the finery of real scholarly journals." They affect a multitude of scientific disciplines.
Without any control over the quality of the works presented, they claim the authors "a few hundred euros" per article, according to Le Monde and NDR. [19659002Inthemostprestigiousjournalswherepublicationrequirespeerreviewbythesamefieldofexpertiseandwherethevalidationprocessusuallytakesseveralmonthsauthorsdonotpay
An NDR journalist also reported on the air improvising with a colleague, a computer scientist through a fake university website and false references to scientific articles. Both even intervened in a conference where they "received a prize at the end."
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