曾因发现反应停可能引起出生缺陷而获得荣誉的澳大利亚医学研究人员威廉·麦克布赖德已被发现在研究另一种医治孕妇晨吐药品中犯有科学伪造罪。现在麦克市赖德已向他所建立和领导的“41基金会”(Foundation41)辞职。关于麦克布赖德捏造和更改了发表在《澳大利亚生物科学杂志》的数据的指责首先是由澳大利亚广播公司的保健专栏记者诺曼·斯旺于1987年12月提出的。麦克布赖德的论文宣称,口服的东莨菪硷——一种反胆硷能药丸——引起了兔子的出生缺陷。但斯旺宣称实际结 William McBride, an Australian medical researcher who has been honored for his discovery of a birth defect that could trigger a birth defect, has been found guilty of scientific forgery in another study of morning sickness drugs for pregnant women. Now Mike Ryder has resigned from the Foundation 41 he founded and led. The accusation that Macbright faked and altered the data published in the Australian Journal of Biological Sciences first came up in December 1987 by ABC Broadcasting’s health columnist Norman Swann. McBride’s paper claims that oral scopolamine, an anti-cholinergic pill, causes birth defects in rabbits. But Swann claims the actual end