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  1. Michael Harrop

    Study Patient Advocacy Organizations: Institutional Conflicts of Interest, Trust, and Trustworthiness (2013)

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4107906/ I've spent the past 10 months living in my car in DC, visiting the Congressional offices most days. I've seen lots of Patient Advocacy Orgs (PAOs) here. A few Congresspeople recommended I contact PAOs. I was already contacting every PAO I came...
  2. Michael Harrop

    Study Some scientists are using chatbots to write all or part of their papers. 454 words that have increased in studies since ChatGPT was released (Jul 2025) Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/health/ai-chatgpt-research-papers.html https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt3813 I think this is a huge problem given how flawed the peer review system is. I highly doubt that peer review is able to adequately fact-check the papers and all the...
  3. Michael Harrop

    Study Industry study sponsorship and conflicts of interest on the effect of unprocessed red meat on cardiovascular disease risk: a systematic review of clinical trials (May 2025) "Most studies without conflicts of interest suggested an unfavorable effect"

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0002916525001261
  4. Michael Harrop

    Article New NIH office to reduce use of animals in research, shuts down final beagle lab. Agency plans to promote alternative methods and address “bias” toward animal studies in grant review (Apr 2025)

    https://www.science.org/content/article/new-nih-office-reduce-use-animals-research https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/2025/05/05/nih-shuts-down-final-beagle-lab-ending-decades-of-painful-dog-experiments/ I have mixed feelings about that. The gut microbiome is a major factor in why animal...
  5. Michael Harrop

    Article Did a top NIH official manipulate Alzheimer's and Parkinson’s studies for decades? Scores of papers by Eliezer Masliah, prominent neuroscientist and top NIH official, fall under suspicion (Sep 2024)

    https://www.science.org/content/article/research-misconduct-finding-neuroscientist-eliezer-masliah-papers-under-suspicion I think this is one of 3 different controversies surrounding Alzheimer's research.
  6. Michael Harrop

    Article Federal antitrust lawsuit against six commercial publishers of academic journals (Sep 2024)

    https://www.lieffcabraser.com/antitrust/academic-journals/
  7. Michael Harrop

    Study Industry, pharmaceutical, drug company influence on science [Collection of info]

    The Perils of Ignoring History: Big Tobacco Played Dirty and Millions Died. How Similar Is Big Food? (2009) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2879177/ The disinformation playbook: how industry manipulates the science-policy process—and how to restore scientific integrity (Nov 2021)...
  8. Michael Harrop

    Article Scientist behind Alzheimer’s drug in late-stage trials is indicted on charges of research fraud. The charges are related to alleged fabrication of research images and data that Hoau-Yan Wang may have used to secure federal grants from the National Institutes of Health (Jun 2024)

    https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/scientist-alzheimers-drug-candidate-indicted-charges-research-fraud-rcna159537
  9. Michael Harrop

    Article ‘The situation has become appalling’: fake scientific papers push research credibility to crisis point. Last year, 10,000 sham papers had to be retracted by academic journals, but experts think this is just the tip of the iceberg (Feb 2024)

    https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/03/the-situation-has-become-appalling-fake-scientific-papers-push-research-credibility-to-crisis-point Freakonomics podcasts on academic fraud. Discussing what motivates it and some suggestions for mitigating the problem...
  10. Michael Harrop

    Article Top Harvard Cancer researchers accused of scientific fraud; 37 studies affected. Researchers accused of manipulating data images with copy-and-paste (Jan 2024)

    https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/top-harvard-cancer-researchers-accused-of-scientific-fraud-37-studies-affected/
  11. Michael Harrop

    Article Science’s fake-paper problem: high-profile effort will tackle paper mills. Poor-quality studies are polluting the literature — a group will study the businesses that produce them to stem the flow of bogus research. (Jan 2024, united2act.org)

    https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00159-9
  12. Michael Harrop

    Article Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials. How many studies are faked or flawed? Investigations suggest that, in some fields, at least one-quarter of clinical trials might be problematic or even entirely made up, warn some researchers. They urge stronger scrutiny. (July 2023)

    https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02299-w Covers this study, and more: False individual patient data and zombie randomised controlled trials submitted to Anaesthesia (Oct 2020) https://associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anae.15263
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