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- As a long time cancer research scientist, I would say that most (>50%) of the breakthrough in cancer research published in the so-called top journals contain similar problems and cannot be truly duplicated. Simple, look back for 30 years and pull those top papers out today: how many of them can withstand time?
In the past decade it becomes endemic that researchers manipulate their data to make it fit their theory, but not the other way around. This is not because what they truly believe, but what the mainstream want everyone to believe. It is also truth that research showing the truth that does not "fit" the mainstream belief is ignored by ALL top journals without justification.
The problem comes from the basic funding structure of the mainstream. Most of the public research funding is based on "publication records", thus driving this trend of cheating in research.
As long as research results are rewarded financially, this disease will progress till it destroys the entire integrity of the research society. - Reply to this comment
- Hey, people. That cheater is NOT a doctor. The only degree he has is, I quote from HIS own CV, "M.B.B.S. (Bachelor of Medicine & Surgery) degree from Christian Medical College & Hospital, Vellore, India in 1995", unless he is cheating us again by hiding his MD degree from Harvard?
How in the world a guy who doesn't even have a doctoral degree in medicine is allowed to practice medicine in this country?
Also from his own CV on the Internet, "From 1996-1999, he undertook his Residency Training at the Department of internal medicine from the University of North Dakota (UND) School of Medicine, Fargo, North Dakota."
My question to University of North Dakota School of Medicine, how can they allow this dude, without an MD, to do his residency there? Does anybody have a contact at UND Med School?
Are our hospitals short changing us by hiring unqualified cheaters like Potti from India to be our doctors? - Reply to this comment
- It is very common in current bio-medicine researches. This is the way the so called scientists to live their life. Please check how many paper results can be repeated even at the top journal like Science, Nature and Cell. You are fooled by the scientists. It is really a mess to clean at today. But nobody care!
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- As of two hours ago, WPDE News Channel 15 in South Carolina is reporting the the South Carolina Medical Board has suspended Anil Potti's Medical License.
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- This guy should be hung out to dry if he fraudulently skewed data. Many other doctors fall back on this research to treat their patients and ANY skewed research should be automatic grounds for dismissal and loss of license and jail time. You are killing many people for your own advancement. What's the difference between this type of person and a mass murderer who pulls the trigger? Nothing....
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- Dr Potti has over 100 other scientific publications.
Hello?
Does that ring a bell with anyone in Duke or North Carolina? - Reply to this comment
- I want to speak as a family member of a current patient of Dr. Potti. I do feel badly that people died of cancer - and that they feel deceived, but your story didn't tell the whole story either. Dr. Potti is, in my opinion, one of the most caring doctors I've ever met. And, being a primary caregiver to two elderly parents with multiple illnesses, I have met quite a few. Never once has Dr. Potti put my family member in any danger. Quite the opposite. He has been a shining star in the dimly lit halls of the medical establishment. The one statement that stood out to me in your report was the chancellor at Duke saying that monetary compensation wasn't the driver for this...a true desire to cure was. Dr. Potti wants to help people with cancer. I get that from every interaction we have with him. He treats my family member as if it were one of HIS family members...not like a Medicare number.
Maybe his actions of the past were wrong...but his current actions are very right. I was aware of his background when I helped choose the doctor we would go with for treatment. And, I will always feel we made the right choice because of his respect for and treatment of my family member.
The waiting room at the cancer center where we go for office visits was full, yet again today.
Something to consider: those of us who are perfect in every way are allowed to judge. - Reply to this comment
- We watched the Duke segment very carefully, and nowhere did we see or hear that CBS did any investigating or broke any new ground in the story. As long-time readers of The Cancer Letter, the newsletter you gave cursory credit for merely learning about the Rhodes Scholar fib, we knew the facts six months to a year before your "CBS investigation reveals..." In fact, your "face" of the story, the lady who was in Potti's study and later died, was first mentioned in a New York Times story, and you obviously took that, and much of the language in that story, for your report. This is investigating on the part of 60 Minutes? Reading other publications?
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- What I find truly amazing is that someone clever enough to fool the experts with his fraudulent data could be so incredibly stupid to not know that it was inevitable that his fraud would be exposed when the clinical trials failed to reproduce his positive results. Has anyone asked Dr. Potti (if, indeed, he really is a doctor) how he thought he could get away with his fraud?
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- What a surprise, a top right wing university, with massive funding from giant American corporations doing deception. Deception in American business is a VIRTUE for the Top 1%. What a surprise.
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