Word: galloã
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...risky move in deciding to focus on AIDS. Ronald Reagan had declared war on cancer and AIDS had the stigma as a “gay disease.” But in 1983, the French at the Pasteur laboratories were ahead and looked likely to seize the glory, making Gallo??s decision to devote himself to the disease original and ambitious...
Seeking the patent for the test and the profit and honor they deserved, the scientists of the Pasteur Institute sued the United States. The French claimed Gallo had stolen their virus to mass produce the antibody test. But the American antibody test, which used Gallo??s genetic sequence, produced false negatives at an alarming rate. Not only was Gallo wrong, but he refused to admit that he had made a mistake. As a result, Crewdson suggests that Gallo is single-handedly responsible for delaying the development of an accurate HIV test...
After the French sued Gallo and the Department of Health and Human Services, Gallo admitted his errors and the Red Cross adopted the French version of the antibody test. But Gallo??s fall from grace and the revelation of his illegal and unethical manipulation of data feel anti-climatic. In fact, the tedium of the nearly six-year government investigation, with its 300 pages of Congressional evidence, makes Science Fictions feel more like a Lexis-Nexus search than a story of scientific sleuthing. Instead of mentioning every slip-up, Crewdson could have focused on Gallo?...
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