Did a Misquotation Warp the Concussion Narrative?

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• Personal Author:
  Casper ST ; Finkel AM
• Description:
  On 28 February 2022, the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) retracted 'The time lords-measurement and performance in sprinting' by McCrory, because of 'unlawful and indefensible breach of copyright.' McCrory was editor-in-chief of the BJSM from 2001 to 2008 and authored or coauthored approximately 200 articles, reviews and editorials in BJSM between 2000 and 2021. Within days of the retraction, a blog post by Brown revealed many other McCrory publications requiring investigation in light of detailed evidence Brown presented that he interpreted as plagiarism or 'text recycling'. McCrory himself had decried 'redundant publication' in a BJSM editorial titled 'Fraud and Misconduct in Publication,' writing that authors did it 'in the guise of boosting their curriculum vitae'. We have no way of knowing whether the portions of multiauthored articles that McCrory repurposed were originally written by him or by colleagues, and (if the latter) whether these colleagues knew of the recycling. ... If these concerns prove valid, it is important to consider how badly contaminated at least one corner of the sports medicine literature may have become. Plagiarism is an offence against a colleague who deserves attribution; it is theft. Concocting words that a scientist never wrote, in order to undermine his arguments and promote your own, is worse: it is an offence against science. Furthermore, and perhaps most importantly, it is possible that such distortions have created victims beyond the academic fraternity and contributed to a false narrative regarding the interpretation of concussion research. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Ethics Head Injuries Sports Injuries Sports Medicine TBI Traumatic Brain Injury
• ISSN:
  0306-3674
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Michigan ; New York ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  56
• Issue:
  23
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20070732
• Citation:
  Br J Sports Med 2022 Dec; 56(23):1334-1336
• Contact Point Address:
  Dr Stephen T Casper, Humanities and Social Sciences, Clarkson University School of Arts and Sciences, Potsdam, NY 13699, USA
• Email:
  scasper@clarkson.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2023
• Performing Organization:
  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  British Journal of Sports Medicine
• End Date:
  20280630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/208902/cdc_208902_DS1.pdf
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