Fake medical trials cluster around a few repeat authors — one person wrote 104 of themPersian translation delivered
Medical trials built on invented patient data mostly came from small groups that faked results again and again. Researchers examined 236 such withdrawn trials; a single author accounted for 104 of them.Translated the headline, gist, and why-it-matters fields into natural, idiomatic Persian while preserving all numbers, technical terms, and proper nouns in English per the rules.
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Why it matters
When doctors choose a treatment, they usually trust summaries that pool many trials together. A trial with invented data can sit inside that pool for years and push doctors toward the wrong choice. Here, authors who faked data repeatedly went a median of 13.6 years before their work was withdrawn, compared with under 3 years for one-time offenders. The hopeful part is that the fakery looks concentrated in a few places rather than spread everywhere, so checking harder in those places could catch a lot of it.Gives Iranian readers a fluent, accurate Persian version of the science-news item without altering its meaning or hedges.
Who's behind it: T. Jajieh, F. Naudet, J. Ioannidis and colleagues, A French-led academic research team with international collaborators.
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