Charles Piller

And they sell these authorships to people who are desperate enough or simply confused enough to pay a little money to get in on the game and be able to enhance their resume to get jobs or to increase their ability perhaps to have publications in legitimate journals.

And they sell these authorships to people who are desperate enough or simply confused enough to pay a little money to get in on the game and be able to enhance their resume to get jobs or to increase their ability perhaps to have publications in legitimate journals.

And they sell these authorships to people who are desperate enough or simply confused enough to pay a little money to get in on the game and be able to enhance their resume to get jobs or to increase their ability perhaps to have publications in legitimate journals.

So how do we fight back against this potential fraud that seems to be growing?

So how do we fight back against this potential fraud that seems to be growing?

So how do we fight back against this potential fraud that seems to be growing?

Yeah, so it's a great question, Mike, for a few reasons. And let me answer it in a couple different ways. So We are very privileged in this country to have excellent institutions that regulate, monitor science. The funders, the journals, the regulatory agencies like the Food and Drug Administration, these are agencies and groups that have

Yeah, so it's a great question, Mike, for a few reasons. And let me answer it in a couple different ways. So We are very privileged in this country to have excellent institutions that regulate, monitor science. The funders, the journals, the regulatory agencies like the Food and Drug Administration, these are agencies and groups that have

Yeah, so it's a great question, Mike, for a few reasons. And let me answer it in a couple different ways. So We are very privileged in this country to have excellent institutions that regulate, monitor science. The funders, the journals, the regulatory agencies like the Food and Drug Administration, these are agencies and groups that have

for many, many years served the public well with advancing scientific ideas, but I think have fallen behind in critical ways, in ways that we need to press them to improve for the sake of the scientific record and also for the advancement of medicine in general.

for many, many years served the public well with advancing scientific ideas, but I think have fallen behind in critical ways, in ways that we need to press them to improve for the sake of the scientific record and also for the advancement of medicine in general.

for many, many years served the public well with advancing scientific ideas, but I think have fallen behind in critical ways, in ways that we need to press them to improve for the sake of the scientific record and also for the advancement of medicine in general.

Let me give you the example of, this is something that to me was a pretty stunning example from research that I did for the book that also appeared in Science Magazine recently about the guy who used to be the chief neuroscientist in the head of the division of neuroscience at the National Institute on Aging.

Let me give you the example of, this is something that to me was a pretty stunning example from research that I did for the book that also appeared in Science Magazine recently about the guy who used to be the chief neuroscientist in the head of the division of neuroscience at the National Institute on Aging.

Let me give you the example of, this is something that to me was a pretty stunning example from research that I did for the book that also appeared in Science Magazine recently about the guy who used to be the chief neuroscientist in the head of the division of neuroscience at the National Institute on Aging.

That is a very important agency that funds research into Alzheimer's and other neurological disorders. And what this guy was, I found in my reporting, had been apparently falsifying images and other data in his studies going back a quarter century. This is Dr. Maslia? That's right. Very important guy in the business, very highly regarded.

That is a very important agency that funds research into Alzheimer's and other neurological disorders. And what this guy was, I found in my reporting, had been apparently falsifying images and other data in his studies going back a quarter century. This is Dr. Maslia? That's right. Very important guy in the business, very highly regarded.

That is a very important agency that funds research into Alzheimer's and other neurological disorders. And what this guy was, I found in my reporting, had been apparently falsifying images and other data in his studies going back a quarter century. This is Dr. Maslia? That's right. Very important guy in the business, very highly regarded.

His studies had been cited by leading people in the field thousands and thousands of times, even though they were filled with images that appeared to have been based on doctoring. Doctoring in ways that often fundamentally changed the results so that you could no longer rely on the experiment, no longer rely on its conclusions.

His studies had been cited by leading people in the field thousands and thousands of times, even though they were filled with images that appeared to have been based on doctoring. Doctoring in ways that often fundamentally changed the results so that you could no longer rely on the experiment, no longer rely on its conclusions.