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Animal rights watchdog group quashes 2 fraudulent scientific articles
From AnimalsVoice.com, April 14, 2022
A national research watchdog is charging former award winning graduate
student/animal researcher at Drexel University here—at the center of a
scandal involving multiple falsified publications—has now had another
scholarly article retracted, for falsely claiming affiliation with his
former institution, Drexel.
The most recently falsified article, was retracted just two days ago,
following a complaint filed by SAEN, a national watchdog nonprofit that
investigates animal abuse and illegal activities at U.S. research
facilities.
The study: Dynamic changes in arterial pressure following high cervical
transection in the decerebrate rat was retracted April 12, 2022. The reason
for the retraction is listed as:
“Drexel University is listed in the above article as having provided funding
and ethical approval for the reported study. After publication, Drexel
University has confirmed that the corresponding author was not affiliated
with their institution at the time of publication of this article and has
not been affiliated with the institution since 2017. As accurately
representing, affiliated institution, ethics approval and the source of
funding is core to the integrity of published work, we are therefore
retracting the article.”
The article title discusses partial brain removal as well as cervical
transection in rats, said watchdog SAEN, noting that in light of the fact
that these procedures may have been performed without scientific/veterinary
approval of any kind, and with no oversight on the performance of such
highly invasive procedures, it is more than shocking.
Michael George Zaki Ghali, previous recipient of Drexel’s prestigious Amedeo
Bondi PhD Endowed Graduate award, has now had over a dozen journal articles
retracted.
Another recent Ghali retraction followed an earlier complaint filed by SAEN.
The Journal of Integrative Neuroscience (JIN) retracted Ghali’s grisly March
30, 2020 article on rat experimentation. The retracted article discusses
another gruesome experiment in which rats brains are cut out.
In the email to SAEN confirming the retraction, Alex Zhang, JIN’s Managing
Editor, stated: “Thank you again for your generous effort to preserve the
integrity of the scientific community.”
“All of Ghali’s fraudulent animal research publications should be removed
from the scientific record,” said Michael A. Budkie, A.H.T., co-founder,
SAEN, adding, “Clearly the scientific community’s peer review process has
failed. How are articles published wherein an author claims a non-existent
connection to a university?”
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