Sam Yoon, M.D. has had four medical journal articles retracted thus far, including a recent 2024 paper that featured faked data where images were used multiple times in one paper to represent different phenomenon.
Physicians in a prominent cancer lab at Columbia University, including the Chief of Cancer Surgery at Columbia, have now had four studies retracted and a stern note added to a fifth accusing it of “severe abuse of the scientific publishing system,” the latest in a long history of research misconduct by physicians. These retracted papers often live on given the publicity of the retraction often doesn’t rival the publicity of their publication. Physicians will continue to cite retracted papers by other physicians, perhaps because the papers by physicians are often ghostwritten by others – often times it is companies that ghostwrite for physicians, and both the physician and the company are morally bankrupt if they are doing this. So who cares if you cite a retracted paper.
Unfortunately, misconduct and fakery plagues the clinical trials run by physicians too. Your tax dollars, your insurance fees, and the money you pay for healthcare is supporting this physician fakery. It’s part of the Medicalization of America. Your wallet goes thin in the process, and your health suffers. If ever there were a time to reform our treatment system (some call it healthcare), the time is now.
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