WOW: "The report also comments on the affiliation of the person entrusted with the statistical analysis, Nobuo Shirahashi. Mr Shirahashi’s affiliation, as provided to The Lancet, was: “Clinical epidemiology, Osaka City University Graduate School”. In April of this year, The Lancet received a letter from a professor at Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine informing us that there has never been a Department of Clinical Epidemiology in the university, that Osaka City University “has never had the statistical analysis group for Jikei Heart Study”, and that Mr Shirahashi “has never been staff of our university” but was employed by Novartis Pharma Japan. Our attempts to obtain a response from Mr Shirahashi were hindered by his recent retirement from Novartis, but the Global Head of Medical Affairs, Dr Usman Azam, did share with The Lancet that Mr Shirahashi had been employed by Novartis throughout the period of the trial and its publication. Dr Azam also told us: “In addition, it appears Mr Shirahashi obtained an unpaid position in about 2001 with the Osaka City University Graduate School’s Medical Research Faculty as a part-time lecturer in the Department of Medicine. He held the position until 2011.” Dr Azam further acknowledges “…that Mr Shirahashi should have requested the studies’ authors to identify him as a Novartis Pharma K.K. employee”. "retractionwatch.wordpress/2013/09/06/lancet-retracts-jikei-heart-study-following-investigation/
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