问题论文照常发表？——问题医生害人害己

Paolo Macchiarini, an Italian surgeon, has been fired from two institutions and faces the retraction of many of his papers after findings of scientific misconduct and ethical lapses in his research—yet this hasn’t prevented him from publishing again in a peer-reviewed journal.

保罗.麦克卡瑞尼是一名意大利外科医生，他已经接连被两个机构开除，而在发现了科学谬误和伦理问题后，他的很多论文也面临被退回——然而，他竟然还继续在同行评议的杂志上发表论文。

Despite his circumstances, Macchiarini appears as senior author on a paper published last month investigating the viability of artificial esophagi “seeded” with stem cells, work that appears strikingly similar to the plastic trachea transplants that ultimately left most of his patients dead.

尽管面临如此处境，麦克卡瑞尼在上个月发表的一篇论文里看起来还像是个资深作者，该论文研究了种植了干细胞的人造食道，这些工作跟他进行的塑料导管移植惊人地相似，而最后这些移植导致了他的大部分患者的死亡。

The journal’s editor says he was unaware of Macchiarini’s history before publishing the study.

杂志的编辑说在发表这项研究前他并不清楚麦克卡瑞尼的过去。

“I’m really surprised,” says cardiothoracic surgeon Karl-Henrik Grinnemo, one of the whistle-blowers who exposed Macchiarini’s misconduct at the Karolinska Institute (KI) in Stockholm.

“我真的惊呆了，”心血管外科医生卡尔-亨瑞克.格林尼莫说，他是首批揭露麦克卡瑞尼在斯德哥尔摩的卡洛琳斯卡学院的失误的人之一。

“I can’t understand how a serious editorial board can accept manuscripts from this guy.”

“我无法理解一个严肃的编委会怎么会接受这种人的投稿。”

Macchiarini was once heralded as a pioneer of regenerative medicine because of his experimental transplants of artificial tracheas that supposedly developed into functional organs when seeded with a patient’s stem cells.

麦克卡瑞尼曾经被报道成再生医学的先驱因为他实验性地移植了人造食管，而这些人造食管在种植了患者的干细胞之后预计会发育成功能性的器官。

But his career came crashing down after the Swedish documentary Experimenten showed the poor outcomes of his patients, all but one of whom have now died. (The lone survivor was able to have his implant removed.)

不过在瑞典实验记录显示他的患者的糟糕后续之后，他的事业就遭遇了滑铁卢，除了一个患者之外其余患者都死亡了。（唯一的幸存者也把他的移植物摘除了。）

Macchiarini was subsequently fired from KI, both the university and a national ethics board found him guilty of scientific misconduct in several papers, and Swedish authorities are now considering whether to reopen a criminal case against him.

后来麦克卡瑞尼就被卡洛琳斯卡学院开除了，该大学和国家伦理学会都发现他在几篇论文中存在科学性谬误，瑞典当局现在正考虑是否针对他进行刑事立案。

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