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MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas has forced out three senior researchers with ties to China. The move comes amid nationwide investigations by federal officials into whether researchers are pilfering intellectual property from US research institutions and running "shadow laboratories" abroad, according to a joint report by Science magazine and the Houston Chronicle.
The National Institutes of Health began sending letters to the elite cancer center last August regarding the conduct of five researchers there. The letters discussed "serious violations" of NIH policies, including leaking confidential NIH grant proposals under peer review to individuals in China, failing to disclose financial ties in China, and other conflicts of interest. MD Anderson moved to terminate three of those researchers, two of whom resigned during the termination process. The center cleared the fourth and is still investigation[sic] the fifth.
The move follows years of probing from the FBI, which first contacted MD Anderson back in 2015 with such concerns, according to MD Anderson President Dr. Peter Pisters. In December 2017, MD Anderson handed over hard drives containing employee emails to FBI investigators. That same year, a report by the US Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property used some rough calculations to estimate that IP theft by all parties cost the country upward of $225 billion, potentially as high as $600 billion, each year. The report called China the "world's principal IP infringer."
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 24 2019, @02:41PM (10 children)
oh how they must hate the internet.
well. you no longer control the horizontal, the vertical, or the flow of information.
research funded by the public should be public.
the benefit is that the advances are made, that's what the public actually needs.
the moment you stop denying access to information, all of these conflicts of interest will disappear and you will be left with scientists who are in it for the science.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 24 2019, @03:02PM (9 children)
But, you don't seem to understand the real problem here. It's fine if information flows. But, information shouldn't flow unless politicians are profiting from that flow. 'Member Mitt Romney, and his magic underwear and stuff? When information, equipment, and jobs flowed to China, and he profited from it, that was all good. But, peons can't be doing that.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by ikanreed on Wednesday April 24 2019, @03:11PM (8 children)
It's amazing the way right wing ideology melts your brain, such that a private "charity" hospital that gets 50% annual "growth" is the fault of those evil meddling government officials in non-specific ways.
MD Anderson should change their slogan to "Making Cancer History. Unless of course that happens to cut into our margins."
This is an institution that every year gets hundreds of millions of people who genuinely want to reduce the scourge of cancer to donate money so we can "find the cure" but jealously guard even intermediate results on the off chance that they could be sold for a profit. Everything about healthcare in the US is fucked, and it's got jack shit to do "politicians" except inasmuch as any of them represent your stupid fucking views.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 24 2019, @03:36PM (7 children)
I wonder if you really read my post. My post was an attack on a right winger in specific, and the right wing in general. I said very nearly the same thing you said, in a sarcastic enough way. Information may not flow, unless some politician can make money from the flow. One of us misunderstood the other, I'm sure.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Wednesday April 24 2019, @03:38PM (6 children)
Yes, but it's nonetheless untrue that the greedy fuckers here today are in the public sector.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 24 2019, @03:55PM (2 children)
My god! You've either lost your mind or have been so brainwashed by the deep state that you can't see the plain truth in front of you!
Martin Shkreli: Just a good-hearted philanthropist trying to make everyone's life better -- thrown in prison because the public sector can't stand to see anyone do good for the populace
Elizabeth Holmes: Another great humanitarian that the public sector has demonized. Stripping her of her assets and now trying to put her in jail. No good deed goes unpunished, eh?
Mark Zuckerberg: Widely (at least by his mother) viewed as the sweetest boy in the world, all he ever wanted to do was to bring those "dumb fucks" together in communities around the world. But no. The public sector has only contempt for those who want to make our lives better.
Travis Kalanick: A truly sensitive, kind and caring person who only wanted to make life easier for everyone, who fought the good fight against the public sector and strove to make the lives of the women around him better ("that was the best 18 seconds of your life, right baby?"). Driven out of his own company. The "public sector" strikes again.
The public sector causes only pain and suffering. Anyone who tries to make the world a better place must be destroyed!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 24 2019, @04:11PM
LOL - especially the (at least by his mother). The real kicker would be, if Zuck's mother despises the little worm she brought into the world.
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Thursday April 25 2019, @05:12AM
You forgot one: Heather Bresch.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 24 2019, @04:46PM (2 children)
Just admit you mischaracterized runaway's post and be done with it.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Wednesday April 24 2019, @05:58PM (1 child)
That seems like an unlikely resolution to the problem of runaway blaming everything on a totally absent 3rd party.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 25 2019, @12:40AM
Hey, preaching to the choir here, but his original post was just saying politicians don't support freedom if information unless it lines their pockets. Obviously a gross generalization but he wasn't saying anything crazy this time.