User talk:Gtagg

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Again, welcome! France3470 (talk) 13:24, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

Thank you very much, France3470! Gtagg 22:08, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

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SarahStierch (talk) 17:06, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

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Robert Gallo

Hello, Gtagg, and thank you for your recent edits to Robert Gallo. I have several concerns which I have attempted to articulate at the talk page. Please join in discussion there to achieve consensus prior to reintroduction of these edits, per bold, revert, discuss. I have also posted to the BLP noticeboard albeit without mentioning you by name. Keepcalmandcarryon (talk) 18:09, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

Hey Keepcalmandcarryon, I will draft a response to your concerns as soon as I am able. The overriding issue with the version of Robert Gallo's wikipage prior to my edits is that it is quite one-sided in favor of Dr. Gallo, placing the majority of events in a positive light for Dr. Gallo when in fact he was found guilty of scientific misconduct (later vacated on appeal) for co-opting the French Pasteur Lab's LAV sample into his own, which led to him claiming credit for the discovery of HIV and later the HIV test, both of which were based on the French LAV sample. Notwithstanding HHS vacating the misconduct determination due to a change in the definition and application, this was proven in later years when the French successfully obtained additional royalties from the HIV test following two genetic determinations (Pasteur and NIH) that found Gallo's HLTV-3B to be identical to the French LAV. Futhermore, the NIH analysis cast doubt to the claim that this was a result of contamination because it openly questioned whether Gallo's HLTV-3B ever existed. As a result, the wikipage should document his unquestionable "controversial" role in the identification of HIV and the subsequent HIV test. The wikipage, as it stands now without my edits, does not even mention that he was found guilty of scientific misconduct (only says "cleared of all wrongdoing"), he misappropriated the French LAV sample for both the initial HIV discovery and the later HIV test, or his other tactics that were documented in the HHS rebuke of his methods during this period. --Gtagg 21:03, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

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Your draft article, Draft:Dr. Alvin J. Ingram

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. 1989 (talk) 03:41, 12 January 2017 (UTC)

Thank you, 1989. I am still editing the page and hope to go live soon. Please let me know if I need to do anything more to preserve the page as I continue to revise it.

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