Academia - broken trust
Fraud continues.. and a short story. This gonna strain some of my old friendships - but they know it is true.
Once in my academic training as a cardiac surgeon, an esteemed professor of surgery asked me to “review his list of patients and write a paper about how well I do this certain heart valve operation.”
Well - okay.. so off I go, pulling charts, looking at complications, deaths, followup etc. He was indeed a master of surgery and I had assisted on several of these operations with him. Truly talented!
So I write the paper, do the statistics — and since I wasn’t a statistician, took the paper and the data to the Department’s hired PhD statistician to review and use the correct statistical analysis tools and polish the bottom line.
Took the paper and gingerly handed into the talented hands… He read through it as I sat there and he threw it back at me, pages flying all around… “This is bullshit - do it again” I meekly said. wait - what part of it, and he said “The results— boy”. I told him the statistician had done the math. The Professor said - “Oh BS statistician, don’t you know we write our conclusion and findings first and then go in and fill in the data to affirm it.. and “I the professor want it to say “so and so results/mortality”…….that is the way do it here at (withheld) University.” I mentioned is was the best results of anybody, anywhere who ever published on that type of procedure. He said “I don’t care, I want it to say “dot dot dot…” I meekly dismissed myself and left.
Never wrote another paper with him or for that matter any other Professor there.
Apparently that kind of stuff continues in the institutions of “higher” learning.
Read this expose and learn what is happening. - with your endowment fund dollars, or worse, your hard earned tax dollars paying to fund research that is truly “bullshit” to quote my old trusted Professor.
Briefly put .. Yep, I agree. lots of fraud going on.
This actually has been the standard for a lot of medical research for 25 years.
In 2010, It reached its all time height with the Purge of the NIH & CDC of anyone who “would NOT play ball” during the Barry O administration.
Since that time medical journals and govt funded research has been 90% positive for pharmaceutical companies and Government data.
Weird.
I was preaching about this 8 years ago and was laughed at.
Wow. Showed himself to you. Unfortunately, many are slow to see the ineptness in our national healthcare. NIH, CDC, and FDA are true examples of corruption to the core. Their only resolve is what’s best for their kickbacks and ability to grant funds for those who kneel at their feet.