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Iowa State AIDS Researcher Admits To Falsifying Findings

Posted by timothy on from the seemed-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time dept.

theodp writes "'With countless lives depending on their work,' writes Brett Smith, 'it seems unthinkable that AIDS researchers might falsify their work. However, that's just what Iowa State University assistant professor Dong-Pyou Han has admitted to, according to federal documents.' Han resigned from the project in October after admitting to tampering with samples to give the appearance that an experimental vaccine was causing lab animals to build up protections against HIV. According to the NIH, Han apparently spiked rabbit blood with human blood components from people whose bodies had produced antibodies to HIV. 'This positive result was striking, and it caught everybody's attention,' said the NIH. However, researchers at other institutions became suspicious after they were unsuccessful in duplicating the ISU results. The Iowa State AIDS research project had been awarded $19 million in federal grants over the past several years. Han has agreed to be banned from participating in any federally-financed research for three years."

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  1. humans cannot be trusted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Is it any surprise that extraterrestrials want nothing to do with us?

  2. Scum like that should be infected with HIV by Tanuki64 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I am sure she would think twice to fake results then.

  3. Not humans, Koreans ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Dr. Dong-Pyou Han is a Korean.

    He cheated.

    So was Dr. Woo-suk Hwang, who fake the data on cloning back in 2006.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwang_Woo-suk

    Koreans can never be trusted.

    Never !

  4. Re:He should be in jail by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    There is no 'real' research into 'AIDS', because anybody who dares to question the 'party line' (i.e. Peter Duesberg, etc.) CAN'T GET FUNDING. Nobody is allowed to do experiments which would prove the 'official' hypothesis is incorrect - which, of course, it is...

    Millions of people in the U.S. should be 'HIV positive' by now, since all other STDs are rising year upon year, yet we see no increase in the number of people dying from so-called 'AIDS'. How is that possible? Most of the people who are 'HIV positive' don't KNOW they are 'HIV positive', and MOST people don't use condoms, therefore there should be hundreds of thousands of people dying from 'AIDS' every year.

    Do any of you even know what 'AIDS' is?