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Exposed: The plague of fake medical trials putting lives in danger as experts reveal a FIFTH of studies published each year could contain invented or plagiarised results
Daily Mail
Oct 30, 2021
Professor Lisa Bero, CBH Senior Scientist and an expert in study fraud at Cochrane, warns of 'paper mills' – shadowy companies that operate online, churning out sham studies much like the 'essay mills' that profit by selling work to students. Academics investigating these paper mills recently flagged more than 1,000 potential research fraud cases linked to them. Read article>>
The article also linked to a UK Podcast, Medical Minefield, where Dr. Bero is interviewed for their story " Can We Really Trust Medical Research?" Dr. Bero's segment begins at 14:46 - listen below: