HIV Doctor Fakes Drug Trial Data
Posted on 15. Jun, 2010 in News Stories
The Food and Drug Administration is seeking to disqualify Dr. Daniel Berger from any further drug research. They accuse Dr. Berger for faking a large portion of a clinical drug trial.
For example, many of the patient signatures were found to be forged, including forms indicating participants’ health for the clinical trial. Also, pre-study tests to determine the health of the subject, such as physical exams and electrocardiograms, were sometimes not even performed.
Dr. Berger is a long-established HIV doctor. In defense, Dr. Berger blames the problems with the study on a former coordinator, whom he claims was a convicted felon that he didn’t perform a background check on.
Read more at: Chicago Tribune.
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mjfan
Jun 17th, 2010
why would anyone fake research data?
joyfulbeth
Jul 20th, 2010
If the researcher is receiving grants, one might fake the data to continue to receive the monies, i.e.: make the results look better than they really are, etc.