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- Title
- The cancer drug, the faked data and the superstar scientist: an investigation can reveal the secret history of one of Australia's top scientists, whose faked data underpins a drug now being given to patients.
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- The Age
- Edition
- online
- Imprint
- 26 July 2025
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- https://www.theage.com.au/national/the-cancer-drug-the-faked-data-and-the-superstar-scientist-20250710-p5mdxa.html
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Also published in "The Sydney Morning Herald" and the "Brisbane Times".
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- Abstract
An investigation by this masthead ("The Age") can now reveal that serious concerns about Smyth's conduct stretch back years to his time at the prestigious Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. It also lays out for the first time how Smyth's colleagues finally brought him unstuck, via secret recordings and claims Smyth fabricated data from mice he never treated.
The scandal has led to calls from the highest levels of the profession for an overhaul of how scientific misconduct is handled.