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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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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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Science Fictions: A Scientific Mystery, A Massive Cover-Up, and the Dark Legacy of Robert Gallo
January 31, 2002, Little, Brown
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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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