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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: 4, Informative) by legont on Wednesday April 24 2019, @03:40PM (6 children)
The US steals Chinese talent from China. Chinese talent steals the results back to China. It is theirs to begin with and they are loyal to their motherland.
If the US wants technology safe, it should spend some money to educate local patriots. There is no free lunch here. This is especially obvious since the US did similar things to Great Britain at some point - transferred technology and stopped paying.
One such an Asian researcher in the US wrote an insightful book about it - highly recommended. http://www.personal.ceu.hu/corliss/CDST_Course_Site/Readings_old_2012_files/Ha-Joon%20Chang%20-%20Kicking%20Away%20the%20Ladder-The%20%E2%80%9CReal%E2%80%9D%20History%20of%20Free%20Trade.pdf [personal.ceu.hu]
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 24 2019, @04:15PM (2 children)
Nice spin - I like it. TANSTAAFL
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 24 2019, @06:29PM (1 child)
FYATHYRIO
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 24 2019, @06:31PM
Don't talk about my horse, bitch!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 24 2019, @05:14PM
i have to agree. you want something to stay in the US? try teaching USians to do the work , you fucking cheapskates.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 24 2019, @05:40PM
That PDF is an excellent read. I've often asked free trade proponents just when we've ever seen free trade. I'd like to compare free trade, to whatever. Alas - Britain only experienced free trade for a rather brief period, and the US rejected free trade out of hand. The quote of US Grant, really surprised me - I didn't think he was enough of a scholar to formulate the concept:
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 24 2019, @10:56PM
Not so much. Ha-Joon Chang/a> is a South Korean National living in the UK: [wikipedia.org]
and he's written several other books that are worth a look too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Samaritans:_The_Myth_of_Free_Trade_and_the_Secret_History_of_Capitalism [wikipedia.org]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_Things_They_Don%27t_Tell_You_About_Capitalism [wikipedia.org]