Science Fictions
A Scientific Mystery, A Massive Cover-Up, and the Dark Legacy of Robert Gallo
by John Crewdson
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"More than ten years in the making, John Crewdson's Science Fictions is a brilliant work of investigative reporting that raises the curtain on a scientific scandal of major proportions. Science Fictions is the narrative of how one of this country's superstar scientists, Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute, falsely claimed to have been the first to isolate the AIDS virus, HIV, and to develop the HIV antibody test that saved the blood supply.
These achievements brought him honor and riches at the expense of the true discoverers at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. Crewdson traces how the AIDS virus was actually discovered and the blood test developed and by whom, how the French AIDS virus ended up in Gallo's test tubes, and how the National Institutes of Health and other agencies of the Reagan administration struggled to cover up the truth."--BOOK JACKET.
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Science Fictions: A Scientific Mystery, a Massive Cover-up and the Dark Legacy of Robert Gallo
February 2003, Back Bay Books
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in English
0316090042 9780316090049
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Science Fictions: A Scientific Mystery, A Massive Cover-Up, and the Dark Legacy of Robert Gallo
January 31, 2002, Little, Brown
Hardcover
in English
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0316134767 9780316134767
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"In the spring of 1981, a handful of young men began turning up in the emergency room at the UCLA hospital in West Los Angeles with the same mysterious complaint: a prolonged fever and swollen lymph glands, followed by a rare type of pneumonia previously seen only in the elderly or in malnourished children."
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Describes the competition between scientists--including Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute--over credit for the discovery of the HIV virus in a study that offers a revealing look at how scientific and research laboratories really work.
In 1983 Gallo, of the National Cancer Institute, and a group of scientists at Paris's Pasteur Institute announced their isolating of separate AIDS viruses. The stakes--moneyed prizes and patents, not to mention cures--were stratospheric. By 1985, the Pasteur Institute filed suit claiming that Gallo--whose discovery was actually a dead end--had appropriated "their" virus as his own. In 1992, the National Academy of Sciences agreed, accusing Gallo of "intellectual recklessness" and "essentially immoral" behavior.
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