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SCIENCE: The Case Against Gallo Collapses...
Nine years ago, Dr. Robert Gallo was one of science's supernovas. 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...
...years later, the researcher was crucified by reporting in the Chicago Tribune, and Michigan Congressman John Dingell demanded a government investigation. Perhaps the low point for Gallo came this year when Alan Alda portrayed the scientist as a self-promoting snake in And the Band Played On, an HBO movie about the AIDS epidemic...
ASSISTANT EDITORS: Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Andrea Dorfman, Brigid O'Hara-Forster, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Jane Van Tassel (Department Heads); Bernard Baumohl, David Bjerklie, Val Castronovo, Mary McC. Fernandez, Georgia Harbison, Ratu Kamlani, Sue Raffety, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Susanne Washburn, Linda Young...
Sitting atop a desk in a corridor of the conference hall, Hovanessian was incensed at the skepticism he faced. "It's very shabby of these American colleagues who questioned the results," he said. "While I was talking, Gallo was sitting in the front row laughing all the time." Alternating between French and English, Hovanessian rejected the idea that his announcement was premature. "You don't think I would just come up with something like this, throw it out there and say, voila, take it?" he asked. "We have had these results in hand since April and have repeated the whole...