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Disgraced surgeon is still publishing on stem cell therapies - C C - Apr 29, 2018
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/04/disgraced-surgeon-still-publishing-stem-cell-therapies
EXCERPT: Paolo Macchiarini, an Italian surgeon, has been fired from two institutions and faces the retraction of many of his papers after findings of scientific misconduct and ethical lapses in his research—yet this hasn’t prevented him from publishing again in a peer-reviewed journal. Despite his circumstances, Macchiarini appears as senior author on a paper published last month investigating the viability of artificial esophagi “seeded” with stem cells, work that appears strikingly similar to the plastic trachea transplants that ultimately left most of his patients dead. The journal’s editor says he was unaware of Macchiarini’s history before publishing the study.
“I’m really surprised,” says cardiothoracic surgeon Karl-Henrik Grinnemo, one of the whistle-blowers who exposed Macchiarini’s misconduct at the Karolinska Institute (KI) in Stockholm. “I can’t understand how a serious editorial board can accept manuscripts from this guy.”
MORE: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/04/disgraced-surgeon-still-publishing-stem-cell-therapies