<< He is working at the Medical School hospital research facilities. >>
I doubt it. More likely, he hooked up with somebody he knows there who already has a lab, and paid them a bunch of money to do whatever he tells them to do.
Menon himself has no lab at Harvard. If he did, he would have turned up on the website search. That's how research institutions work. You can't just walk off the street, rent a lab, and start doing experiments. Occasionally, space permitting (a rarity---space is always in short supply and constantly fought over), an institution will rent out lab space to an outside firm. But a search of the site for NNVC, nanoviricides, or nanoviricide turned up nothing as well.
This is no small issue, donpat. What this means is there is no oversight to anything Menon might be doing. There is no objective review, nobody to stop him from fabricating or distorting data. And that happens all the time, believe me. A recent survey by Nature (which, by the way, is the #1 ranked journal in all of science and medicine) indicated that one-third of all academic researchers out there---people who are subject to oversight and peer review----admitted to having manipulated or distorted or outright fabricated data. There are a lot of pressures to do this, and the safeguards against that even in institutions with a ton of oversight are inadequate, obviously. The National Institutes of Health clearly agrees, since in the last year or two they have issued a whole lotta RFAs and PAs that will fund millions of dollars of research into finding new, more effective ways to detect and limit scientific misconduct. This is a very hot issue at the NIH now.
NNVC has no oversight at all in their "research." They can simply make it up, and there will never be any way for anybody to detect this because they don't answer to anybody. With the future of their company at stake, and potentially millions of dollars of their money and those they are beholden to, I guess you gotta ask yourself a simple question: Why wouldn't they fabricate data if they needed to?
I'm not calling them any names, but I know enough about human nature to know that anybody who doesn't think 999 people out of 1000 would do exactly that is just plain naive. There's just no downside, donpat. None. And everything----EVERYTHING is at stake.
<< There are plenty of dolts out there accomplishing so very little, to be true, and being given glorious awards for their minor accomplishments.
Agreed? >>
Yes.
There are also plenty of people out there who are out to separate people from their bank accounts. Agreed?
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