[Letter to the Council of the National Academy of Sciences from Serge Lang]

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To the Council
National Academy of Sciences
2101 Constitution Avenue
Washington DC 20418
Last spring I communicated to you a letter by Representative Gil Gutknecht (R-MN) to Anthony Fauci.
Gutknecht sent copies of this letter to several officials and scientists in the government. HHS Secretary
Donna Shalala answered on 10 June. I enclose my analysis of Shalala's response to one of the questions,
titled "The unreliable mess in Science and Shalala's answer to Representative Gutknecht". For your
convenience I also enclose:
1. Gutknecht's letter once more
2. An article in Science, 16 December 1994
3. An article in Science, 30 June 1995
4. Shalala's response to all of Gutknecht's questions.
Informatively yours,
Serge Lang
cc: Representative Gutknecht, Donna Shalala, Dan Greenberg (Science and Government Report), John
Crewdson, Floyd Bloom, Ellis Rubinstein, and Christine Gilbert (Science), Barbara Spector (The
Scientist), Nicholas Wade and Gina Kolata (New York Times), Peter Duesberg, Richard Strohman,
Bill Paul, Harold Jaffe, Harold Varmus, Suzanne Hadley, Micah Siegel, etc.
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