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Journalists have published in a not very famous scientific journal a false study on cancer, as part of a large survey of unscrupulous publications, said Thursday Le Monde . The purpose of the investigation was to show 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, have transmitted to the journal Journal of Integrative Oncology "the results of a clinical study showing that propolis extract was more effective on colorectal cancer than conventional chemotherapies"
"The study was fictitious". 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 produced, and the authors, affiliated to an imaginary research institute, did not exist either.The publication was nevertheless accepted in less than ten days and published on April 24," explained Le Monde .
The daily's website offers a link to an archived version of this study, which was removed once the reviewers were warned.
" Dozens of unscrupulous publishing houses. " 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. German Research Minister Anja Karliczek has expressed her support for an investigation into why this false study was published
The journal 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 snoring, having all the finery of real scholarly journals". They affect a multitude of scientific disciplines.
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