Discrepancies in the publication of clinical trials of bone marrow stem cell therapy in cardiology scale linearly with effect size! This is the shocking but not so surprising result of a study in BMJ that found over 600 discrepancies in 133 reports from 49 trials. Trials without discrepancies (only 5!) reported neutral results (i.e. no effect of therapy on enhancement of ejection fraction). The most spectacular treatment effects were found in those trials with the highest number of discrepancies (30 and more).