“When I looked carefully at the spreadsheet, I could see entire blocks of data that were repeated,” recalled John Loadsman, an anesthesiologist and scientific sleuth at the University of Sydney. “It was obvious that this was cooked.”
High-profile anesthesiologists earning retractions for data, image problemsCredit: funkenzauber/Adobe Stock In July 2021, John Loadsman received a manuscript about a clinical trial that immediately roused his suspicion. Then the editor-in-chief of Anaesthesia and Intensiv…retractionwatch.com