Guy Gelert
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Khajuria’s academy raises concerns about promises of publication for a price, and Avance Innovation’s signature surgical device, while marketed for humans, has apparently been tested on only six rats and no people in a study that lacks internal consistency.
U.K. surgeon and inventor’s endeavors include unreproducible data and guaranteed publications for a price
Ankur Khajuria offers a “career-changing course” on conducting reviews, which he markets on LinkedIn to medical students and doctors. (source) “Research will help you get ahead,” Britis…
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January 7, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Khajuria’s academy raises concerns about promises of publication for a price, and Avance Innovation’s signature surgical device, while marketed for humans, has apparently been tested on only six rats and no people in a study that lacks internal consistency.
Of enlightenment physicians: ‘The choice of the medical topic does not seem to have been important…. The obvious difficulty was that would-be authors had little practical knowledge and no research infrastructure on which to fall back.’
bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Dishonesty and research misconduct within the medical profession - BMC Medical Ethics
While there has been much discussion of how the scientific establishment’s culture can engender research misconduct and scientific irreproducibility, this has been discussed much less frequently with ...
bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com
September 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Of enlightenment physicians: ‘The choice of the medical topic does not seem to have been important…. The obvious difficulty was that would-be authors had little practical knowledge and no research infrastructure on which to fall back.’
bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Reposted by Guy Gelert
Time for your yearly reminder that “We need less research, better research, and research done for the right reasons”. #OTD 1948 Douglas Altman b (d 3 June 2018) “One of the most influential medical statisticians of the past 50 years” he led reforms in medical research reliability & reporting. 1/3
July 12, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Time for your yearly reminder that “We need less research, better research, and research done for the right reasons”. #OTD 1948 Douglas Altman b (d 3 June 2018) “One of the most influential medical statisticians of the past 50 years” he led reforms in medical research reliability & reporting. 1/3