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2001

Cases: 
Alleged plagiarism
The cheating medical students
Clinical malpractice
Authorship dispute
Duplicate publication: how much is too much?
Plagiarism or redundant publication?
Possibly unethical plastic surgery
The undeclared competing interest
A paper which discloses confidential material
Reviewer submitting for publication material that had been removed from a paper he had reviewed
Scientifically meaningless research without consent
Duplicate submission of a paper
Retrospective correction: how far back do we go?
Duplicate publication based on conference proceedings
The dubious scientist
Research involving unethical animal experimentation
Developing novel approaches to improve the assessment of absolute risk among patients with cardiovascular disease
Clinical misconduct(?), incidentally discovered
The missing ethics committee and lack of written consent
Authorship dispute
Undeclared conflict of interest
The wrong standard deviations, the over stringent selection criteria, and the overt attempt at advertising
The hazardous drug used in an unlicensed way
The study that may or may not already have been published
A paper describing a case of possible medical negligence
The unacceptable use of a placebo
Paper submitted by a PR company without the knowledge of the authors
Duplicate publication based on government data
The single author, randomised controlled trial
Editorial compliance with duplicate publication
The overlapping papers with conflicting data
A surgical series that is scientifically meaningless, has no ethics committee approval, and does not mention informed consent

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