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Article: New HHS Report Faults AIDS Researcher; Gallo, Who Had Been Cleared by NIH, Rejects Probe's Finding of `Scientific Misconduct'
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- The Washington Post
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- December 31, 1992
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In its final report on one of the longest running science fraud
cases in U.S. history, the Department of Health and Human Services
has found AIDS researcher Robert C. Gallo committed "scientific
misconduct" in connection with one sentence he wrote in a scholarly
paper published eight years ago.
The report, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Post,
reverses one conclusion of an investigation by the National
Institutes of Health, which earlier this year had cleared Gallo -
co-discoverer of the AIDS virus - of all allegations of fraud after
a two-year investigation.
The new report, produced by HHS's Office of Research Integrity
(ORI), also found that Gallo's co-worker at the ...