From Retraction Watch:
Author with seven retractions makes Thomson Reuters list of top scientists — plus another twist
A cancer researcher who recently retired from MD Anderson Cancer Center — and also recently lost seven papers from one journal following a multi-year investigation — is one of the world’s top scientists, according to a new ranking.
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We have a long history with Aggarwal — after he told us in 2012 that MD Anderson was investigating his work, he later threatened to sue us for reporting on the case.
But there’s another twist to the story, and that’s the identity of the person stepping into Aggarwal’s endowed chair position (the Ransom Horne, Jr. Professorship for Cancer Research) at MD Anderson. That would be Keith Baggerly, whose name should be familiar to our readers: Baggerly is a bioinformatician who helped expose the flaws in the work by now-discredited cancer researcher Anil Potti. More.
All this feels a lot funnier if we do not have friends or relatives facing cancer and haven’t spent a lot of time, energy, and money raising funds for research. ):
See also: Can you trust what you read in medical journals? Not necessarily.
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