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Merck's Deleted Data

Posted by Zonk on from the shouldn't-have-used-office dept.

An anonymous reader wrote to mention a Forbes article describing a drug study tampering proven by software. From the article: "A top editor of The New England Journal of Medicine says that he was stunned to find out that data linking Vioxx to cardiovascular risk was deleted from a major study his journal published five years ago--and that it appears that Merck researchers may have deleted that data ... When you hover the cursor over the editing changes, the identity of the editor pops up, and it just says 'Merck'"

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  1. frist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    frist

  2. In other news by GAATTC · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    American public stunned that the president lied about Iraqi WMD's as a pretext for going to war.

  3. I for one... by dirtydog · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    welcome our new heart destroying, document tampering overlords.

    I'm here till Thursday, try the veal!

  4. News for nerds? by Nethead · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I'll take the karma hit and say what everyone else is thinking: How is this news for nerds? WTF IS ZONK SMOKING NOW? I think I'll join the ever growing crowd that just blocks Zonk's stories. Already today we had "podjacking". Now it's reports that MS Word has a feature that actually works but some people didn't think of it and got busted.

    Yeah, this is off-topic but it need to be said. Mod be down, I'm comfortable with the size of my UID.

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    -- I have a private email server in my basement.