Charles Grassley

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Person.png Charles Grassley  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
Member ofHouse and Senate Taiwan Caucus, Transatlantic Institute/Friends of Israel
Interests • science/fraud
• big pharma

A "powerful" powerful US senator with "a history of investigating misconduct in the biomedical sciences".[1]

Career

Grassley has proposed a federal law, the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, which would require drug and device companies to register on a public website virtually all payments made to physicians.[2]

Grassley wrote in a February 2014 letter to the Office of Research Integrity about the fraud of Dong-Pyou Han, who was dismissed after admitted fabricating and falsifying data in HIV vaccine trials that "this seems like a very light penalty for a doctor who purposely tampered with a research trial and directly caused millions of taxpayer dollars to be wasted on fraudulent studies". Nature writes that his intervention was instrumental in the sentence being upped to 57 months in jail and a US$7.2 million file, with 3 years of supervised release after he leaves prison.[1]

2001 anthrax attacks

Charles Grassley, together with Rush Holt called for hearings into the DOJ and FBI's handling of the 2001 anthrax attacks investigation.[3]


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