U.S. Vaccine Researcher Sentenced to Prison for Fraud

July 2nd, 2015

Via: Nature:

Rare is the scientist who goes to prison on research misconduct charges. But on 1 July, Dong-Pyou Han, a former biomedical scientist at Iowa State University in Ames, was sentenced to 57 months for fabricating and falsifying data in HIV vaccine trials. Han has also been fined US$7.2 million and will be subject to three years of supervised release after he leaves prison.

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One Response to “U.S. Vaccine Researcher Sentenced to Prison for Fraud”

  1. tal says:
    July 3, 2015 at 5:05 pm

    You can be sure, that if Han had been working under direction of the CDC like Dr. Poul Thorsen, his case would never have made it to trial:

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/central-figure-in-cdc-vac_b_494303.html

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