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”
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.
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?
Your link to your own piece is broken — you have sethroberts first. That’s no way to boost your Googlejuice.
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”
https://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.
Thanks, Jeremy.
Scott, Gallo repeatedly claimed — before yesterday — that he had been cheated out of two Nobel Prizes. Yesterday surely makes three.
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?
(Oops, ref 11 is ok.)