Word: fossel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...follow-up study that was published in theJournal four years later, in April of 1990, failedto reproduce Fossel's results. Indeed the study,which was conducted by a team of scientists inNorway, reached exactly the opposite deduction...
Other researchers also were unable to reproduceFossel's results. According to Dr. Paul Okunieff,chief of radiation oncology at the National CancerInstitute, in Maryland, even Fossel hasn't beenable to reproduce the results...
Okunieff, who also tried unsuccessfully toverify Fossel's work, said he has no evidence theMedical School scientist committed actual researchfraud. But he said the results of Fossel's workare suspicious...
...original data was so remarkably positivethat it's hard to believe it actually happened bychance," Okunieff said. He added that each timeanother scientist failed to verify the work,Fossel alleged the tests had not been reproducedaccurately...
...Fossel's work, originally funded by a pair ofgrants from the National Institutes of Health, waslater supported by a private corporation thathoped to market the results...