{"id":29503,"date":"2020-07-11T17:15:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T22:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=29503"},"modified":"2020-07-11T17:15:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T22:15:20","slug":"correcting-the-record-a-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/07\/11\/correcting-the-record-a-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Correcting The Record: A Record"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is not new, but I just happened to run across it and I am morbidly amused by it. From<\/a> Retraction Watch<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

We have a new record for the longest time from publication to retraction: 80 years. It\u2019s for a case report about a 24-year-old man who died after coughing up more than four cups of what apparently looked \u2014 and smelled \u2014 like pee.<\/p>\n

According to the case report titled \u201cEen geval van uropto\u00eb\u201d published in 1923, an autopsy revealed that the man had a kidney that was strangely located in his chest cavity. A case of pneumonia caused the kidney to leak urine into the space around his lungs, leading to the perplexing cough.<\/p>\n

If that sounds too crazy to be true, you\u2019re right: This man never existed. The case was retracted in 2003. (Yes, we are a little late to this one \u2014 it recently popped up in one of our Google alerts.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In case you thought those pictures of grave men in old fashioned clothing showed they took their lives seriously, here’s the editors of the journal publishing part of the letter admitting to, not fraud, but hoax:<\/p>\n

The editors found the definitive answer about the truth of the case in the\u00a0autobiography of someone named Prof. Dr. A. Querido (1901-1983), emeritus professor of\u00a0social medicine at the University of Amsterdam, who\u00a0was a medical student in 1923. He and some of the students had some down time after they had finished studying for an exam, and so turned to hypothetical medical conditions:<\/p>\n

Taking it easy at the start, but growing more enthusiastic as time went on, we\u00a0started to make up diseases and forms of illnesses: \u201cIf one was suffering from\u00a0this disease, what would be the symptoms?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIf kidney growth (Mesonephros)\u00a0continued to exist due to an embryological error\u201d, said one of them, \u201cyou would\u00a0see a working kidney across the spine, into the thorax.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIndeed\u201d, said another,\u00a0\u201cthat side would then have to lack a testis, because the mesonephros forms the\u00a0efferent ductules of the testis.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s right\u201d, said a third, \u201cand if that half-man\u00a0suffers from a lung infection, the infection spread into the primitive renal pelvis,\u00a0resulting in the patient suffering from\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cPiss cough.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The students decided to try to get this made-up case published: …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Troublemakers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is not new, but I just happened to run across it and I am morbidly amused by it. From Retraction Watch: We have a new record for the longest time from publication to retraction: 80 years. It\u2019s for a case report about a 24-year-old man who died after coughing \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29505,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29503\/revisions\/29505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}