[LIS-Forum] MYSTERY OVER OBESITY 'FRAUD': RESEARCHER BAFFLED AFTER HIS RESULTS APPEAR IN BOGUS PAPER.

[Ragaavendra R]

Dear Moderator, Kindly circulate this.

MYSTERY OVER OBESITY 'FRAUD': RESEARCHER BAFFLED AFTER HIS RESULTS APPEAR IN BOGUS PAPER.

Ghost writing is taking on an altogether different meaning in a mysterious case of alleged scientific fraud. The authors of a paper published in July (A. Vezyraki et al. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. http://doi.org/nxb; 2013), which reported significant findings in obesity research, seem to be phantoms. They are not only unknown at the institution listed on the paper, but no trace of them as researchers can be found.

The paper, published in the Elsevier journal Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications (BBRC), is not the kind of prank that journals have encountered before, in which hoaxsters have submitted dummy papers to highlight weaknesses in the peer-review process. The paper's reported findings - that overexpression of two novel proteins in fat cells leads to improvements in metabolic processes related to diabetes and obesity in mice - are, in fact, true.

FOR COMPLETE READ AND REFERENCE LINK: http://www.nature.com/news/mystery-over-obesity-fraud-1.13810?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20130926

Best Regards,
Raghvendra R

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