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Le frodi non sono il più grande pericolo per la ricerca accademica Le fragilità della medicina, dagli studi clinici alla pratica Vinay Prasad e John Mandrola Qualche settimana fa il podcast Freakonomics Radio del giornalista statunitense Stephen J. Dubner ha pubblicato un episodio dal titolo “Perché ci sono così tante frodi nel mondo accademico?”. Partendo dallo scandalo di Francesca Gino…

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Forget lung, breast or prostate cancer: why tumour naming needs to change The conventional way of classifying metastatic cancers according to their organ of origin is denying people access to drugs that could help them.   Fabrice André at al. Over the past century, the two main approaches to treating people with cancer — surgery…