Alan List (TMU)

How do Amer­i­can sci­en­tists get em­broiled in Chi­na scan­dals? Mof­fitt in­ves­ti­ga­tion sheds some light

The crim­i­nal charges against Charles Lieber, Har­vard’s top chemist, for ly­ing about his in­volve­ment in Chi­na’s Thou­sand Tal­ents pro­gram once again begs the ques­tion: How does an Amer­i­can ex­pert get in­duct­ed and en­twined in­to Chi­nese re­search cir­cles?

Thanks to an in­ter­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tion at Mof­fitt Can­cer Cen­ter fol­low­ing the ter­mi­na­tions of six top of­fi­cials — post­ed on­line ear­li­er in Jan­u­ary — we now have a bet­ter idea.

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