Sun has begun work to establish a new immunology lab in Beijing following investigations of him by the US government, a source says.
  • Beaver [he/him]
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    20 hours ago

    Sun was removed from his position in 2022 after being investigated for his ties to China, a source told the Post on condition of anonymity.

    Details of the investigations remain unclear, but MD Anderson was among the first institutions to dismiss China-born researchers after warnings from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), one of their major funders, about potential theft of US scientific research.

    I don't know what's more sick:

    • treating medical science like it's stealth bomber blueprints
    • treating medical science like it's something to be owned and leveraged
    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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      19 hours ago

      It's just so absolutely disgusting. Like oh no he shared life saving science that will be used to help cure cancer. How fucking terrible.

      • ThermonuclearEgg [she/her, they/them]
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        16 hours ago

        If US medical scientists had already come up with a cure for cancer, do you think common people would get to know/use it, or would they just hoard it to keep ghouls alive?

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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          16 hours ago

          totally the latter, I mean they don't even hide it https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldman-asks-is-curing-patients-a-sustainable-business-model.html