A New Record For Scientific Retractions?

sciencehabit writes "An investigating committee in Japan has concluded that a Japanese anesthesiologist, Yoshitaka Fujii, fabricated a whopping 172 papers over the past 19 years. Among other problems, the panel, set up by the Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists, could find no records of patients and no evidence medication was ever administered. 'It is as if someone sat at a desk and wrote a novel about a research idea,' the committee wrote in a 29 June summary report."

Re:Not the First Time

[gl4ss]

.. and then they gave the data to cia to use as basis for strategy.

Re:..wrote a novel about a research idea..

[Hentes]

Not really, I've heard that he is so boring that most people who met him ended up sleeping.

Well, yes.

[Black Parrot]

If you're going to fabricate 1 paper, you might as well fabricate 172.