Charles Lieber Arrested

CHARLES LIEBER, CHAIR of Harvard’s department of chemistry and chemical biology, and a University Professor, a designation bestowed on only the most eminent scholars, has been arrested, charged with misleading investigators from the Department of Defense about his work for a Chinese government-sponsored program designed to identify and financially support leading scientific researchers both in China and abroad. The U.S. government has characterized the program as a threat to national security.

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The memoryholing of this story is telling me all that I need to know.