On Jan 28, 5:57*am, cwdjrxyz > wrote:
> 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.

This was not good news for the field. The data was obviously
fabricated as you really can't match up the results with the data
presented.