哈佛再爆学术造假丑闻！正式撤回6篇论文……

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美国哈佛大学医学院的癌症专科附属医院丹娜法伯癌症研究院(Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)在曝出学术造假丑闻后，正式宣布撤回6篇论文，并纠正了另外31篇论文的数据。

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本月早些时候，一位分子生物学家肖尔托·大卫(Sholto David)发表了一篇文章，指控哈佛癌症研究人员通过修改图像伪造数据，随后哈佛医学院附属机构采取了上述措施。

Dana-Farber disclosed details about the investigation after molecular biologist Sholto David published earlier this month on what he said were signs of image manipulation in papers by Dana-Farber researchers.

David声称，这些造假论文发表于1999年至2017年之间，他使用了人工智能图像分析软件和手动检测发现了论文中的错误。

这些论文主要涵盖了癌症发展的基础生物学，并发表在一系列期刊上，包括顶级的Cell和Science。

For nearly three years, David has been engaged in identifying and publicizing information about faulty academic papers.

David contacted Dana-Farber and Harvard Medical School with his concerns, submitting a list of papers he said contained problems.

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丹娜法伯癌症研究院正在对四名研究人员的50多篇论文进行审查，这四名研究人员都在哈佛医学院担任教职，其中一人是丹娜法伯癌症研究院首席执行官。

The investigation at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, or DFCI, associated with Harvard Medical School and considered one of the top centers for cancer research and treatment in the United States, involves four of its senior cancer researchers and administrators.

More than 50 papers, including four co-authored by Laurie Glimcher, the institute's CEO and president, are still under review.

丹娜法伯癌症研究院名誉首席科学官巴雷特·罗林斯(Barrett Rollins)周一表示，我们致力于建立一种问责和诚信的文化，因此，每一项调查都经过了充分审查，以确保科学文献的可靠性，并且行动动迅速而果断。

"We knew about many of these papers and their allegations before the blog post," Barrett Rollins, the cancer institute's research integrity officer, told The Wall Street Journal.

根据罗林斯的说法，其中6篇论文遭到撤回，31篇研究论文的数据“被确定为需要更正”，还有一些研究论文正在审查中。

The Harvard-affiliated medical institute said it already has initiated the retraction of six papers and is in the process of correcting 31 others following the investigation into data falsification.

不过，罗林斯也指出，论文中出现的图像差异并不能证明作者有意欺骗。“这一结论只能在经过仔细的、基于事实的调查后得出，这是我们回应的一个组成部分。我们的经验是，错误往往是无意的，不会上升到不当行为的程度。”

In a statement by Rollins to The Harvard Crimson, the school's student newspaper, David contacted DFCI with allegations of data manipulation in 57 manuscripts. Rollins said 38 were articles in which DFCI researchers "have primary responsibility for the potential data errors".

本月早些时候辞去哈佛大学校长职务的克劳丁·盖伊面临抄袭指控，数周以来，这所常春藤盟校受到了外界密切关注。

关于盖伊涉嫌学术不端的指控自去年12月初就已涌现，这被视为是其辞职的直接诱因。此外，盖伊还陷入了反犹太主义风波。

Earlier this month, Claudine Gay stepped down as Harvard president after she faced numerous allegations of plagiarism in her past academic publications. Gay had requested corrections to her dissertations that involved an academic misconduct claim, while she said she "stands by her research".

哈佛大学校董委员会此前表示，哈佛大学和美国高等教育近期面临一系列前所未有的挑战和不断升级的争议与冲突。盖伊和有关方面一直寻求以哈佛大学最佳利益为指导共同应对挑战。在经过综合考量后，校方接受盖伊的辞职，哈佛大学教务长艾伦·加伯将担任临时校长。

记者：Mingmei Li

来源：中国日报网财联社