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Article: Science Fictions: a Scientific Mystery, a Massive Cover-up, and the Dark Legacy of Robert Gallo. (Political booknotes: lab rat).
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- The Washington Monthly
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- March 1, 2002
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SCIENCE FICTIONS: A Scientific Mystery, a Massive Cover-up, and the Dark Legacy of Robert Gallo by John Crewdson Little, Brown & Co., $27.95
THE INTERNATIONAL CONtretemps over who really discovered the AIDS virus--Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md. or Luc Montaignier of the Pasteur Institute in Paris--made headlines around the world for 10 years, starting in the mid 1980s. The story as it unfolded made for great reading, involving accusations of fraud in the highest citadels of scientific establishment, and a vicious cover-up reaching far up into the U.S. government. Gallo's eventual admission that the virus he claimed to have ...