Cheating: You Can Find It Everywhere

One of the main tenants of cardiology, is that the heart cannot regenerate.  So, years ago when Dr. Piero Anversa announced that his scientific research showed that the heart could grow new heart cells and replace those lost in heart attacks and heart failure  the medical community was very optimistic.  It now appears that data was falsified and the heart cannot regenerate

His studies took place at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital.  He falsified some data to obtain funding from the NIH.   It was discovered that over 30 of his scientific studies over a decade, contained falsified and fabricated data.

Corruption can obviously take place anywhere from Wall Street, to the President, to laboratories conducting scientific experiments at our most esteemed institutions of higher learning.  To think that someone would falsify data in order to better their own career is unthinkable, but in this day and age,  anything goes.

Dr. Anversa continues to deny he has done anything wrong.  He says a rogue colleague took his data and altered it.  Dr. Anversa is now 80 years old, and lives in disgrace in New York.  He says he spent a lifetime on this important work, and the allegations against him are untrue.  No one knows the truth, but it's sad to see criminal behavior at the highest levels of science.