Credit: funkenzauber/Adobe StockIn July 2021, John Loadsman received a manuscript about a clinical trial that immediately roused his suspicion. Then the editor-in-chief of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Loadsman asked the authors for the raw data. In 2009, our cofounder Adam Marcus broke the story about Scott Reuben, an American anesthesiology researcher who faked data in numerous clinical trials. Like Polat, Ergil is a professor at the University of Health Sciences. Ergil also had other problematic publications, Loadsman found.