Sunil Rao: An Editor’s Thoughts on the NEJM/LancetGate

Tags: Health

06/18/2020 Michel Accad, MD Anish Koka

Dr. Rao is an interventional cardiologist and researcher who has been at Duke University for over 10 years. He also works in the Veteran’s hospital in Durhum, is a leader in the cardiology social media community with 16k followers on Twitter, and is also editor-in-chief of the journal Circulation Interventions. In this podcast he discusses his perspective on the recent retractions of papers involved in the Surgisphere scandal.

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Article from the-scientist on Lancet/NEJM retractions

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