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Author

  • Serge Lang

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  • -

Category

  • Origin

Topic

  • Origin of AIDS

  • Robert Gallo

  • Luc Montagnier

Article Type

  • Report

Publish Year

  • 1995

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  • Serge Lang's letter discusses the Dingell Subcommittee Staff Report, highlighting issues in scientific integrity, Gallo's case, and media's reporting of it.

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  • This is an executive summary of a staff report that discusses the Gallo case, which involved a dispute over the HIV blood test patent. The report highlights the failure of the U.S. Government's defense of Gallo and the consequences of this defense. It emphasizes the importance of upholding scientific integrity and the need for the scientific community to speak out against such failures. The report also criticizes the scientific establishment for not taking meaningful action and leaving the determination of scientific truth to bureaucrats and lawyers. The summary encourages the leaders of science, scientists, and the mainstream press to make a difference by acknowledging the facts and expressing concerns about scientific integrity.

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  • Dingell Subcommittee Staff Report

  • Scientific Integrity

  • Gallo Case

  • HHS (Health and Human Services)

  • Cover-up

  • Leadership Failure

  • Scientific Community

  • Serge Lang

  • Nature (journal)

  • Advocacy

  • Scientific Standards

  • Public Trust

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Letter by Serge Lang of Yale University
23 January 1995

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