henry@GARP.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch) (08/08/90)
this article, excerpted from the ny times, discusses the investigation into the dispute about the discovery of the HIV virus ... go to your library or buy a copy if you want to know more ... (sorry, i don't have the issue number; the way i get this information precludes receiving that information) ... REFERENCE: Throughout the late spring and summer, Dr. Robert C. Gallo, one of America's most prominent AIDS researchers, has been feeling a withering heat that has nothing to do with the weather. Since April, the man generally described as a co-discoverer of the AIDS virus has been under intense federal scrutiny on a series of potentially devastating charges that he and his co-workers at the National Cancer Institute may have either mistakenly or fraudulently claimed as their own the same virus discovered by a competing laboratory in France. Now a National Institutes of Health panel investigating the affair says it is almost ready to release a report that should resolve the debate about who discovered the AIDS virus. "I believe that we will be able to come to definitive findings on most of the key issues," said Dr. Suzanne W. Hadley, deputy director of the Office of Scientific Integrity at the health institutes and one of four members on the inquiry panel. "It's good to have that sense of confidence." ... # Henry Mensch / <henry@garp.mit.edu> / E40-379 MIT, Cambridge, MA # <hmensch@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay> / <henry@tts.lth.se> / <mensch@munnari.oz.au>