The Lancet, one of the world’s leading medical journals, retracted a nearly five-decade-old paper extolling the safety of talc, the main ingredient in
The journal editors said they recently learned the unsigned article was written by Francis J C Roe, a J&J consultant and prominent cancer researcher. Roe, who is dead, ran the manuscript by the company for changes before publication in 1977 — all unbeknownst to the journal’s staff at the time. The original ...