Controversial NIH study of ‘moderate drinking’ will be terminated after scathing report
In a scathing report, an NIH task force found serious ethical and scientific lapses in the handling of a study funded by the alcohol industry.
The National Institutes of Health will shut down a controversial industry-funded study of moderate drinking and heart disease after a task force found severe ethical and scientific lapses in the study’s planning and execution, the agency’s director said Friday.
The way NIH officials secured funding for the research “casts doubt” on whether “the scientific knowledge gained from the study would be actionable or believable,” according to the task force’s scathing presentation to NIH officials.
The group examining the Moderate
