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Cheated Again! The 2008 Nobel Prize For Medicine

Somewhere in suburban Maryland, Dr. Robert Gallo, ex-discoverer of the AIDS virus, is shaking his fist.

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5 Responses to “Cheated Again! The 2008 Nobel Prize For Medicine”

  1. Jeremy Cherfas Says:
    October 7th, 2008 at 2:13 am

    Your link to your own piece is broken — you have sethroberts first. That’s no way to boost your Googlejuice.

  2. Scott Says:
    October 7th, 2008 at 8:03 am

    Or perhaps it is rightly given to the original discoverers… seeing as your article was written in 1990 and “in June 1991, Gallo finally admitted that the AIDS virus he had “discovered” in 1984 really came from the Pasteur Institute”

    http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/dn14881-comment-was-robert-gallo-robbed-of-the-nobel-prize.html

    As the article states, perhaps Gallo was crucial enough to the early HIV/AIDS research that he should be included in the Nobel, but not necessarily for the virus discovery itself.

  3. seth Says:
    October 7th, 2008 at 7:44 pm

    Thanks, Jeremy.

    Scott, Gallo repeatedly claimed — before yesterday — that he had been cheated out of two Nobel Prizes. Yesterday surely makes three.

  4. Nathan Myers Says:
    October 7th, 2008 at 10:43 pm

    I didn’t know this about Gallo. Wikipedia says he still has a lab, and that the Gates Foundation handed him $15M last year. It also has two broken links to a “Lab_Rat_color.pdf” on this very site (refs 3 and 11) but none to the virusmyth site.

    The article linked is on an HIV denialist site, apparently not updated since 2002. Did they decide in 2002 that the HIV-AIDS link is OK?

  5. Nathan Myers Says:
    October 7th, 2008 at 11:01 pm

    (Oops, ref 11 is ok.)

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