Exposing fraud is no feel-good exercise but worth it for the sake of science

Osteoporosis treatments were reported as positive, but have been unmasked as fraud

Virginia McMillan talks to one half of a team that shines light into dark corners of academia

The Japanese researchers led others to follow false leads, absorbed funding, and exposed patients to ineffective treatments The death by suicide, Andrew Grey, Andrew Grey helps uncover fraud in medical publishing

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University of Auckland

Neurology

Endocrinology

Elder Health

Geriatric Medicine

from n.neurology.org

Cockayne S, Adamson J, Lanham-New S, et al. Vitamin K and the prevention of fractures: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. Arch Intern Med 2006;166(12):1256-1261

from jamanetwork.com

Grey A, Avenell A, Bolland M. Revised Meta-analysis of vitamin K and fractures. JAMA Internal Medicine (formerly Arch Intern Med) 2018;178,8:1135.

from jamanetwork.com

References

1.Bolland MJ, Avenell A, Gamble GD et al. Systematic review and statistical analysis of the integrity of 33 randomized controlled trials. Neurology 2016;87:2391–2402.

2.Cockayne S, Adamson J, Lanham-New S, et al. Vitamin K and the prevention of fractures: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. Arch Intern Med 2006;166(12):1256-1261.

3. Grey A, Avenell A, Bolland M. Revised Meta-analysis of vitamin K and fractures. JAMA Internal Medicine (formerly Arch Intern Med) 2018;178,8:1135.

Exposing fraud is no feel-good exercise but worth it for the sake of science