We don't know exactly how many people are killed by research fraud in medicine

Dr. Peter Wilmshurst: "Well, we don't know exactly how many people are killed by research fraud in medicine, but we do know that there's an estimate that the frauds in six papers by Don Poldermans may have resulted in as many as 800,000 excess patient deaths.

So if one research fraudster can cause that many excess patient deaths, and we think about all the very many research fraudsters with a significant proportion of research being fraudulent, 30% of gynaecological randomized trials containing false data. We're talking about many millions of people killed by research fraud in medical science."