This is nuts - one of the leading pediatric medical journals is admitting that it published research and articles using completely fictional case reports and studies

[matwright@mastodon.social]

This is nuts - one of the leading pediatric medical journals is admitting that it published research and articles using completely fictional case reports and studies

An absolute scandal

#CDNpoli #Health

[chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

@MatWright holy crap.

How many CBC or other news articles have cited the results from these fictional studies?

[matwright@mastodon.social]

@chris Exactly!! and for 25 years!

[thegreenpagesbc@mstdn.ca]

@MatWright

🤨🤯 For 25 years... can't be just a few errors. The publication must have lost all credibility. Would there not be lawsuits due to the impact of conclusions from those false case reports?

[chigaze@mstdn.ca]

@MatWright Here’s the source article over at Retraction Watch, a site I highly recommend.

A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction

A Canadian journal has issued corrections on 138 case reports it published over the last 25 years to add a disclaimer: The cases described are fictional. Paediatrics & Child Health, the journal of the Canadian Paediatric Society, has published the cases since 2000 in articles for a series for its Canadian Paediatric Surveillance Program. The…

Retraction Watch (retractionwatch.com)