John Darsee

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John Roland Darsee (born c. 1948 in Huntington, West Virginia) is an American physician and former medical researcher. After compiling an impressive list of publications in reputable scientific journals, he was found to have fabricated data for his publications.

Education and research career

John Darsee obtained his undergraduate education at the University of Notre Dame, then went to medical school at Indiana University, where he received a degree in 1974.[1]

Darsee had an excellent reputation as a student and medical researcher. He worked at

faculty position at Harvard in 1981. Some of Darsee's colleagues became concerned about the accuracy of Darsee's results. They went to the lab director, Robert Kloner, with their suspicions. Kloner investigated and found that Darsee had been altering dates on his laboratory work to make a few hours' work appear to be several weeks of data.[2] When informed, Braunwald terminated Darsee's fellowship but did not inform the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which was funding the research, of Darsee's misconduct at the time.[2]

Braunwald and Kloner conducted their own investigation into Darsee's work and found no other evidence of fraud; nor did a committee of Harvard faculty appointed by the Dean of the medical school.

fabricating large amounts of data from experiments which he had never conducted. Harvard's investigation, as well as that of Braunwald and Kloner, were criticized for being inadequately rigorous and for reporting that they had "fully reviewed" data which later turned out to be non-existent.[3][4] Darsee was barred by the NIH from receiving federal research funding for 10 years.[5] Brigham and Women's Hospital, affiliated with Harvard, had to return $122,371 in research funds to NIH. This was the first time an institution was required to return money to NIH because of research fraud.[6]

Wider misconduct

Over time, more research by Darsee came under fire. Investigations revealed that Darsee had previously used false data between 1966 and 1970, while an undergraduate at the

Arnold Relman, editor of The New England Journal of Medicine, also criticized Darsee's coauthors for their unfamiliarity with his work and lack of awareness of the scientific misconduct.[7]

Aftermath

Darsee maintained that he had "no recollection" of committing research fraud.[2] He issued an apology which was printed in The New England Journal of Medicine, writing: "I am deeply sorry for allowing these inaccuracies and falsehoods to be published in the Journal and apologize to the editorial board and readers." Darsee asked "forgiveness for whatever I have done wrong."[2][8]

Darsee subsequently entered a clinical fellowship in

New York State Board of Regents revoked his license to practice medicine in the state of New York.[9] He is now working as a medical writer and blogger under the name of John Hughes-Darsee and living with his wife, Linda Hughes, a surgical nurse, and two children in West Nyack, New York.[9][10][11]

See also

Footnotes

  1. PMID 11653988
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  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Wallis, Claudia (February 28, 1983). "Fraud in a Harvard lab". Time. Retrieved March 4, 2008.
  3. ^
    PMID 8487803
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  4. S2CID 26915448. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 2013-05-21.
  5. ^
    New York Times
    . Retrieved March 4, 2008.
  6. ISBN 978-1-133-93468-4
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  7. PMID 6843634
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  8. PMID 6341850
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  9. ^ a b "Fraudulent Harvard researcher loses medical practice license". The Harvard Crimson. September 28, 1984.
  10. ^ Stein, Richard (February 6, 2013). "Academic Fraud". No Cause for Shame (blog).
  11. ^ "John Darsee, MD; Internal Medicine; Indianapolis, IN". Doximity.com. Retrieved August 8, 2013.

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