Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital are calling for the retraction of thirty one studies that they say contain falsified or fabricated data. That essentially strikes them from the scientific record.
The studies all come from the lab of a researcher formerly at Harvard and Brigham and Women's. And they center on the controversial idea that there are stem cells in the heart that might be able to regenerate damaged tissue.
Ivan Oransky joined Heather to dicuss to matter. He's Distinguished Writer In Residence at New York University’s Carter Journalism Institute, co-founder of the blog Retraction Watch.
