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The Duke University scandal — what can be done?
Author(s) -
Ince Darrel
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2011.00505.x
Subject(s) - courage , persistence (discontinuity) , media studies , political science , psychology , history , management , medicine , sociology , law , engineering , economics , geotechnical engineering
It took courage, persistence, and dogged research to persuade journals and indifferent academia that a major piece of cancer research was desperately flawed – even though it was guiding treatment in clinical trials. Darrel Ince tells the story, and finds that the Duke problem was not a one‐off.