PEDIATRICS Vol. 88 No. 3 September 1991, pp. 571
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SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT

J. F. L. MD

In 1916, while British troops were dying in the trenches of Europe, an obscure American by the name of James Shearer published an article in the British Medical Journal describing a method he had devised for depicting the path of gunshot wounds...

The British military embarked on a vigorous and costly program to put Shearer's method to practice. However, it soon became apparent that Shearer's "Invention" was just that and that his impressive article was a fraud. The British Medical Journal promptly published a retraction. Shearer, who had been serving as a sergeant in His Majesty's Army, was summarily court-martialed and sentenced to death by fining squad. He died a year later in prison of tuberculosis, his death sentence having been commuted. [See Lock S. Misconduct in medical research: Does it exist in Britain? Br Med J. 1988;297:1531.]


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