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Harvard's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to retract multiple papers after blogger alleges data fabrication

Harvard University’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston is to retract six research articles and ask for corrections of 31 more, many of them by its senior leaders, after a blogger raised concerns about image manipulation.

Sholto David, 32, a molecular biologist based in Pontypridd, Wales, highlighted apparently duplicated images from 30 articles in a 2 January guest post on the website For Better Science.1 The articles’ lead authors were four prominent Dana-Farber scientists, including the institute’s chief executive, Laurie Glimcher, and its chief operating officer, William Hahn.

The papers spanned the past … ....

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From a small town in Wales, a scientific sleuth has shaken Dana-Farber — and elevated the issue of research integrity

The blog post that has shaken the leadership of Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute was written some 3,000 miles away by an unemployed scientist who spends his time poring over research papers looking for images that may have been manipulated. ....

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