Word: frauds
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...backlash has already begun. In Texas this summer, a woman patient won a settlement from two therapists and a psychiatric hospital after suing them for therapeutic negligence and fraud. She claimed that four years of recovered false memories had made her a "walking zombie." It was the first of what some reputable therapists fear will be many such rulings that will ultimately give their profession a black...
Justice Department Fraud...
According to a federal appeals court, the Justice Department committed fraud and "acted with reckless disregard for the truth" when it withheld evidence that could have prevented the 1986 deportation of Cleveland autoworker John Demjanjuk. The evidence would have shown that someone else may have been Ivan the Terrible, the Nazi death-camp guard Demjanjuk was accused of being...
...When the National Cancer Institute researcher unveiled proof that a virus caused AIDS, he had every reason to look forward to fame, tidy royalties from the sale of blood-test kits and, down the road, maybe even a Nobel Prize. Instead he soon faced doubt, criticism and accusations of fraud. In 1985, just a year after his historic announcement, a dispute erupted over who really identified the AIDS virus -- Gallo or Dr. Luc Montagnier of the Pasteur Institute in Paris. The two agreed in 1987 to share credit for the discovery, but Gallo's travails weren't over...
When the extent of the violations became clear in October, the authorities moved quickly to shut down UB Plasma. They arrested the manager and three employees on charges of fraud and "negligent bodily harm." Last week they began tracing batches of company blood distributed to at least 88 hospitals and four companies in Germany and abroad. Three cases of HIV have been attributed to tainted blood, but a prominent pharmacologist, Ulrich Moebius, warned there may be more. "This," he said, "is only the tip of the iceberg...