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According to the Globe and sources familiarwith the investigation, Fossel is alleged to haveused deliberately misleading data in reaching hisconclusions. Those results, prominently featuredin the New England Journal of Medicine in November1986, received widespread attention upon theirrelease...
According to the Fossel study, the test, knownas nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR),identified changes in the molecular structure ofoncolipids--fatty acids in the blood plasma thatare thought to be associated with cancer...
...follow-up study that was published in theJournal four years later, in April of 1990, failedto reproduce Fossel's results. Indeed the study,which was conducted by a team of scientists inNorway, reached exactly the opposite deduction...
Other researchers also were unable to reproduceFossel's results. According to Dr. Paul Okunieff,chief of radiation oncology at the National CancerInstitute, in Maryland, even Fossel hasn't beenable to reproduce the results...
Okunieff, who also tried unsuccessfully toverify Fossel's work, said he has no evidence theMedical School scientist committed actual researchfraud. But he said the results of Fossel's workare suspicious...