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- This is not just an isolated case. Some fraudulent Indians are cancel in our society.
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- The way basic science research works - the Senior Author- Nevins- is responsible for the integrity of research. As a post-doc Potti couldn't have pulled this off if Nevins did his job. It seems like the post-doc is being used as a scapegoat! 60 MINS I am very disappointed that you did not question others at Duke to figure out what actually happened. Nevins --- what are you hiding?
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- I believe that cancer research is the biggest fraud perpetrated on the public today. Research the NCI, ACS, AACR and others and you will find bloated organizations being run by people making an extreme amount of money. I think about 40% of monies donated actually go directly to finding a cure. Don't believe me... do your own research. The information is available.
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- Dr. Anil Potti should get a felony, and be removed from any academic institution. He should have his medical license revoked.
Now the problem is that the US has too many Indians in prominent positions who getting away with fraudulent credentials, and who make fake claims to solving the world's problems.
In the mean time, too many Indian nationals taking US money and sending it to India.
Wake up america! While you were asleep, Indians took over your land, and businesses and now you will wake up to your nightmare.
Walk down main street USA, what was once American owned businesses will now become a street with all Indian owned businesses. Its already happened in Milpitas and Fremont. - Reply to this comment
- I was not surprised by this to be a fraud as soon as I saw the name. This is a name for person with enthnicity from one of four Southern States of India. These people have brought in pervasive fraud, nepotism and other corrption into USA,Europen and Australia/New Zealand. If CBS wants to do any investigation of this, they can take any major US corporation and look into the hiring practices of temporary workers on H1B, B1, L1, J visas in their IT department and you will find all of these places crawling with people from the regions of India, namely Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and to a lessor extent Kerala and Karnataka. If CBSNEWS needs any help or specific details, I can provide those annonymously to your team.
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- It's not just Potti, and it's not just microarrays. The whole concept of using molecular "signatures" of any kind to do anything beyond the most straightforward of cases (i.e. single gene mutations, etc.) is so flawed that everyone should have seen the problems at the beginning.
The reason what no one seemingly sees it now can be explained by the facts that the technology itself is so elegant and beautiful. But a beautiful biological technology is no different than a beautiful computer technology -- it's not worth much without some very good applications ("apps"), and personalized molecular medicine is still waiting for its first killer app.
Until such time as cancer patients are selected for therapies predicated upon their own unique biology (and not population studies), we will confront one targeted drug after another.
The solution to this problem has been to investigate the targeting agents in each individual patient's tissue culture, alone and in combination with other drugs, to gauge the likelihood that the targeting will favorably influence each patient's outcome. The functional profiling platform results to date in patients with a multitude type of cancers suggest this to be a highly productive direction. - Reply to this comment
- Dear 60 Minuets,
I just listened to your piece on Dr. Anil Potti's cancer research and treatment of last chance patients. I was saddened to hear what you learned about that Doctor.
However, I would like to draw you attention to another doctor who I think found the secret to cancer's cure as far back as 1966. His name was Dr. Judah Folkman.
His research followed the idea that to kill cancer cells, all you had to do was starve them. You may ask, "How do you starve individual cells?" Well, you simply cut off their blood supply.
Yes, Dr. Folkman found a simple way to differentiate blood vessels and block the vessels that carried the cancer signature. He coined the term "angiogenesis" to describe his approach to treatment. There is another doctor researching right now using this same simple method to starve fat cells. I believe there is something to this idea, so I hope you can find the time to dig up this story.
Please find an article from the Wednesday, February 7th, 2001 Minneapolis Star Tribune on page E2, that might be very significant. The headline is "Folkman believed one could starve tumors - and it works." Please be objective so there is a chance you may believe too.
Regards,
DrKnow65 - Reply to this comment
- What is it about Duke! Remember Baron Maurice Jeffrey Locke de Rothschild who claimed he was a member of the Rothschild family and duped Duke and company for at least 2 years and thousands of dollars?
Did the "impartial" review committee that was assembled by Duke look at data that was different from what M.D. Anderson looked at? Is it possible that this con artist sent M.D. Anderson the real data and gave the review committee falsified data? I don't think so. This is a good lesson in arrogance on the part of the lab director/mentor who refused to believe he had been fooled, and on the part of Duke who thought they were going to make millions. I hope the poor ladies husband is successful in his law suit - at a minimum false promise/false advertising. Duke didn't promise the "Standard of Care" which is what they claim she got - they promised much more than the standard of care - they promised a miracle. I guess consideration of Duke's track record and the old adage about "if it sounds too good to be true"...could have prevented this. I'm also beginning to wonder about Indian researchers - wasn't there another recent incident where retractions had to be made regarding the supposed health benefits of red wine (Dipak K. Das, University of Connecticut)? Perhaps a more thorough review of background credentials is in order. - Reply to this comment
- I didn't know 60 Minutes gave out E-Z Passes. Certainly, let Duke off the hook! There was no "due diligence" on the part of the university. Duke saw dollar signs and not the signs of duplicity. From Brodhead(Duke Prexy) down, they were complicit.
Scott Pelley needs to check the number of patients dead. Under Citizens United Duke and Potti can now be tried as "persons," and charged with murder. - Reply to this comment
- If Dr. Potti's online CV was created by a reputation consultant, as the "60 Minutes" report contends, perhaps the consulting group needs an education.
The site, anilpotticv.com, is rife with grammatical errors and inflated language. Dr. Potti's description of the Fargo VA Health Care System is superfluous and appears to be pulled directly from the VA's website. He touts his experience as "Chief President of UND School of Medical and Health Sciences in Internal Medicine" when he actually means Chief Resident. And he still lists his contributions in "gene expression profiles of tumor biology", many of which have been discredited.
Dr. Potti's reputation was sullied by his false claim of a Rhodes Scholarship, which is always granted to Oxford University in England not Australia, and his scientific deception; it is further undermined by his continued inability to speak plainly about his true academic credentials, whatever they might be. It is stunning that an institution as storied as Duke University would not have seen through his charade sooner.
-- A U.S. Physician - Reply to this comment
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