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I found this information in the 20 January, 2012 issue of Science on
p. 271. After a 3 year investigation that has come to a close by the
University of Connecticut Health center in Farmington, on January 11
the school alleged that Dipak Das is guilty of 145 counts of
falsification and fabrication data. The university sent a 60000 page
report to the federal Office of Research Integrity The university has
also declined to accept $US 890000 in federal funding for Das.

Das worked with resveratrol found in red wine, and dozens of papers
co-authored by Das assert that resveratrol protects the heart. The
university has begun dismissal proceedings. Das is of Indian descent
and claims that racism is behind the allegations.

I do not follow the technical literature concerning this field of
research, so I have no opinion about the merits of the long report or,
if it happens to be true, how the view of resveratrol and red wine as
a heart protector will be changed. I do know that I am not going to
read a 60000 page report, even if it is available.