Healthy Skepticism Library item: 17051

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Publication type: Journal Article

Dyer C
Professor is charged with dishonesty over statements on access to full trial data
BMJ 2009 Nov 3;
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/339/nov03_2/b4556

Abstract:

The former research dean of Sheffield University’s medical school was accused of dishonesty at a General Medical Council hearing on 2 November for allowing a journal to publish a false claim that he had seen all the data in a research study of which he was the lead author.

Richard Eastell, who heads the bone research unit at Sheffield University, is at the centre of a research ethics case that saw the other main investigator, Aubrey Blumsohn, who raised questions over the data, take a financial settlement to leave his job at the university.

Dr Blumsohn says that he and Professor Eastell both asked Procter & Gamble, which was funding the study into its osteoarthritis drug risedronate (Actonel), for access to the full data but were refused. The university had been asked to carry out measurements on blood and urine samples that had been taken during clinical trials in the . . .