NEJM doubles down on refusal to retract article Dartmouth says is plagiarized
A top medical journal is again refusing to retract an article co-authored by one of the country’s leading health policy scholars even after the researcher resigned his position this week…
The New England Journal of Medicine is again refusing to retract an article co-authored by one of the country’s leading health policy scholars even after the researcher resigned his position this week following a misconduct finding last month.
As STAT and Retraction Watch , Dr. H. Gilbert Welch resigned from his faculty position at Dartmouth following an internal investigation, which found that Welch had and a researcher at another institution for a published in the venerable journal. The paper was an analysis of how breast cancer screening led to the overdiagnosis of tumors and unnecessary treatments. Welch disputes Dartmouth’s conclusions.
