The Nation - News from May 26, 1985

Ten scientific studies conducted at Columbia University are being retracted from medical journals because their results are wrong, and a committee investigating the affair said that it could neither prove nor rule out “deliberate fabrication of data.” The committee criticized a researcher for relying on a test for four years after doubts were raised about its accuracy. It also chastised a senior physician for listing himself as a co-author of studies in which he was not directly involved.