Science and medicine have been beset by an increasing incidence of fraud detected in academic research.1"3 Historically, academic fraud involving either ethical and/or scientific misconduct has often been associated with high profile journals. A number of these high profile cases have involved anesthesiologists. One well-publicized case of academic fraud resulted in the imprisonment of anesthesiologist, Dr. Scott Reuben, who was at the centre of more than 20 falsified studies in multimodal pain therapy.
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