"I have rarely seen such a flagrant example of unethical conduct in the U.S. courts," Dontzin wrote, in a post-trial statement.
But on 17 July, four days into the hearing, it emerged that Mahmood may have lied in a pre-trial statement.
He asked the city for forgiveness in a post-trial statement and did not address whether he would appeal his conviction.
In a pre-trial statement, Campbell argued that extensive abatement of lead paint is "unnecessary" -- pointing to previous federal and California determinations that lead paint, "if well maintained and intact, typically poses no health risk".
7 20–29 In a similar analysis, Moher et al reported that the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials statement, a reporting guideline for randomised controlled trials, has also been misused by 4 10% of assessed articles as a guideline for quality assessment.
While RCTs are the modern day gold standard for assessment of efficacy of medical interventions, none of the included RCTs appeared to be compliant with the CONSORT (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials) Statement, an internationally agreed-upon set of RCT reporting guidelines [ 31].
6 Following revision of the CONSORT (consolidated standards of reporting trials) statement, 9 a study 10 of 403 randomised controlled trials published during 2002 in 10 medical journals found a higher proportion of trials reporting use of intention to treat than before the statement was revised.
In September, Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis was put to death after he garnered international attention when most of the witnesses who testified against him in a trial recanted their statements.
In 1996 the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials statement was published in an effort to standardize the reporting of clinical trials.
The CONSORT Consolidated Standardss of Reporting Trials) Statement recommends that clinical trial authors "suggest a plausible explanation for how the intervention under investigation might work" [ 5].
Investigators and editors developed the original CONSORT Consolidated Standardss of Reporting Trials) statement to help authors improve reporting by using a checklist and flow diagram.
