Former MU Med School Dean Earns 6th Retracton - MU The Parthenon

Former dean of Marshall’s Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, Dr. Joseph Shapiro, has had his 6th probe insubstantial retracted successful little than a year. 

Shapiro, who stepped down from his presumption arsenic dean past June, received his first retraction past September, according to Retraction Watch. After stepping down, Shapiro moved into a tenured prof presumption wrong the aesculapian school. 

The astir caller retraction from October came aft editors said they “have mislaid assurance successful the integrity of the information presentation” successful the paper. 

“The issues with the images successful the insubstantial were corrected aft they were brought to the authors’ attention. The allegations of representation manipulation successful PubPeer were false. Additionally, nary of the issues raised affected the conclusions successful the paper. Dr. Shapiro and the different authors submitted a corrected survey to the publication, which declined to judge the corrections. The authors are disappointed by the editorial determination and stay committed to the paper, which volition beryllium submitted to different diary for publication,” Marc Williams, Dr. Shapiro’s attorney, said successful a connection to The Parthenon.

After receiving his 5th retraction, helium received an “expression of concern” successful the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, saying that his nonfiction relied heavy connected information from 3 already retracted articles. 

 Marshall University has undergone an interior probe into Dr. Shapiro’s probe conduct, which volition not beryllium public. 

A spokesperson from Marshall University gave a connection connected the presumption of the investigation. 

“An interior probe was completed nether the auspices of the Division of Investigative Oversight astatine the Office of Research Integrity, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and was submitted for review. As the probe is designed to support the integrity of the probe process and the assemblage researchers, nary last conclusions person been drawn regarding the beingness oregon lack of misconduct arsenic we are awaiting DHHS’s last review. Further, fixed this is simply a unit matter, determination volition beryllium nary different comment.”