"A University of Connecticut researcher who studied the link between aging and a substance found in red wine has committed more than 100 acts of data fabrication and falsification, the university said Wednesday, throwing much of his work into doubt.
"Dipak K. Das, who directed the university's Cardiovascular Research Center, studied resveratrol, touted by a number of scientists and companies as a way to slow aging or remain healthy as people get older. Among his findings, according to a work promoted by the University of Connecticut in 2007, was that 'the pulp of grapes is as heart-healthy as the skin, even though the antioxidant properties differ.'
"'We have a responsibility to correct the scientific record and inform peer researchers across the country,' Philip Austin, the university's interim vice president for health affairs, said in a statement..."
It's hardly surprising.
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He was hardly on the only researcher to publish positive results of resveratrol.
ReplyDeleteGiven that 50% to 90% of research is wrong, then odds are the other positive results are also bogus.
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Scientists and medical professionals are still posting results confirming Ancel Keys' research from the 50s, even though large parts of his work was debunked in the 50s. The negatives are just ignored. Bad for business...
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ReplyDeleteYou may be right about the rest of the research although there really is a mountain of it. The problem with this post is that it implies that the positive view of resveratrol was largely driven by this guy's research when in fact his research is only a very small fraction of the positive research on resveratrol. Apparently there is more to the story on this fraud accusation but even if it turns out to be true it does very little to weaken the case for resveratrol because it pertains to only a tiny fraction of the total research on it. There are thousands of published studies on resveratrol. Again, I don't know whether resveratrol is good or bad but this post is very misleading.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your feedback, Taylor. Mark Sisson makes the same observation you do in his post today.
ReplyDeleteI suppose we shall see... But I don't see any reason to take reveratrol for health benefits. Certainly no one who's been ingesting it through red wine has ever seen those benefits...
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ReplyDeleteI thought reservatrol was the key to solving the French paradox? Hence the big push to "prove" its another magical compound that can be sold for a pretty prenny. Ill stick to eating real food and drinking my doses of reservatrol.
ReplyDeleteTeech, exactly. They're moving the goalposts. That's always a reason to be skeptical...
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