Routine Audit Uncovered Reuben Fraud
Missing IRB Info Led To Discovery of Fabricated Data

Adam Marcus
Early April is an exciting time at Baystate Medical Center. That’s when the Springfield, Mass., institution prepares for its annual research week highlighting the latest studies by its 270 faculty members and other scientists.

But 2008 was different. In the run-up to the event, Hal Jenson, MD, Baystate’s chief academic officer, made an alarming discovery. During a routine audit of the summaries, Dr. Jenson found that two abstracts submitted by one of the hospital’s prominent anesthesiologists, Scott S. Reuben, MD, had a potentially critical flaw: neither of the studies appeared to have the approval of Baystate’s institutional review board. That wasn’t necessarily a breach of ethics; after all, multicenter trials often have IRB approval only from sites where patients are enrolled. But it was enough of a red flag that Dr. Jenson asked one of his colleagues to speak with Dr. Reuben about the missing information.

What ensued was the unraveling of what medical ethicists are calling one of the largest instances of research fraud ever reported, a massive scandal that has led to the withdrawal of as many as 21 journal articles (see list).

cut-and-paste方先生译作“复制并粘贴”，那么copy and paste呢？
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估计方老师不小心搞错了，应该译作“剪切并粘贴”比较妥当。