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| abb | Aug 8 2013, 04:30 AM Post #1 |
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http://dukecheck.com/?p=15196 ✓ Caught in scandal Posted on August 7, 2013 by DukeCheck DukeCheck has learned from an impeccable source that Dr. Joseph Nevins, the mentor to Dr. Anil Potti, is retiring. Our source says this followed a year of negotiations with Duke lawyers and a pervasive feeling at the University that his career could not be repaired nor substantial grants secured. We do not believe there is any new development in the continuing investigation into the Potti Mess that warranted his departure at this time. Nevins holds the rare rank of University Professor, specifically being the Barbara L. Levine University Professor of Breast Cancer Genomics. After a long, distinguished career at Duke that won him great respect from colleagues, he became embroiled in 2009 in the scandal that Potti created by falsifying experiments to justify his theories about how to cure cancer. Potti — once the poster boy of Duke Medicine, heavily promoted — and Nevins published many articles in the world’s leading medical journals that had to be retracted. And Potti was conducting clinical trials, telling desperate patients to “Trust me” because he was able to identify through a genomic test how to target cancers with specifically tailored drug protocols unique to each cancer and each patient. That would have been a scientific breakthrough of the highest order. But it was a lie. Nevins on 60 minutes fffNevins himself has denied wrong-doing, most notably making a strong presentation in an intense 60 Minutes interview. (see picture) But since the scandal broke, he has been unable to shake two questions: what did he know? And when did he know it? The Chronicle — on February 12, 2012, in one of its harshest editorials in memory — called for the dismissal of Nevins, saying he was either grossly negligent in supervising Potti or complicit. Potti Anil 343344We have never been able to clarify if Nevins, like Potti, pictured on right, was or still is the subject of a federal research misconduct investigation, which is a secret proceeding. At one point Chancellor Victor Dzau said both were; at another he mentioned only Potti. The scandal involved not only science and medicine, but big money. The genome test that Potti was working on would have been patented, and it’s estimated that there would be great demand among cancer patients. US sales alone would have yielded $600 million a year, with Potti, Nevins and Duke all taking a split. Deputies are at work; we are attempting to reach Dr. Nevins. We will augment this post tonight. A Deputy DukeChecker confirmed on Wednesday morning that Potti is still a physician at the Cancer Center of North Dakota, at least his third job since leaving Duke. The website of the North Carolina Medical Board has indicated for some time that he paid 11 malpractice claims of $ 75,000 or more. Duke and Potti remain defendants in litigation brought by former patients. |
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| abb | Aug 8 2013, 04:33 AM Post #2 |
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Durham resident wants DA investigated Published: August 7, 2013 Updated 9 hours ago By Jim Wise — jwise@newsobserver.com DURHAM — A Durham resident is calling on the Superior Court to investigate removing District Attorney Leon Stanback from office. In an affidavit filed in Superior Court Monday, James Michael Lynch claims Stanback has shown willful misconduct and “persistent failure to perform his duties” by disregarding Lynch’s request that he authorize a State Bureau of Investigation probe into the Durham County Sheriff’s Office’s handling of the case. Lynch alleges that Sheriff Mike Andrews and several deputies “intentionally covered up” the theft of a safe containing more than $17,000 in cash, a handgun and other items from his home on East Geer Street in September 2012. “The sheriff’s department is investigating that and that investigation is open right now,” Stanback said Wednesday. “After looking at the facts of the situation, I decided not to proceed further in calling in the SBI ... because I thought it had been handled adequately,” he said. In his affidavit, Lynch says he contacted the SBI in May about investigating his claims of a cover up and was told the district attorney could authorize the SBI to look into them. Subsequently, though, Stanback refused to meet with him and inspect his “criminal evidence on the Sheriff and his investigators.” Lynch “has been very persistent,” Stanback said. “He’s called me and talked to me, and I’ve talked to the sheriff’s department and to the SBI about it. “We make a lot of judgment calls every day, and we can’t make everybody happy,” Stanback said. Lynch also states that Stanback “has made very serious and False accusations about me” to an agent of the SBI. Gina Mack of the Clerk of Superior Court’s office said she had not heard anything from Stanback and could not say anything about what the court might do in response to the affidavit. Stanback said he has seen the affidavit but has not been “served with anything.” If he is served, he said, he “may” make a formal response. “That’s all I have to say,” he said. Wise: 919-641-5895 Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/08/07/3090299/durham-citizen-wants-da-investigated.html#storylink=cpy |
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| Payback | Aug 8 2013, 08:42 AM Post #3 |
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There's always an "intermediate explanation" between initiating fraud and participating in fraud and another "intermediate explanation" between that and condoning fraud. Cool it, DukeCheck. You sound a little judgmental. 
Edited by Payback, Aug 8 2013, 09:36 AM.
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