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	Podcast:		Please Explain
	Episode:		The cancer drug, the faked data and the superstar scientist
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:17:15
	Publish Date:		2025-07-28 19:00:00
	Description:		Mark Smyth was one of Australia’s very top cancer scientists. Or, as one former colleague puts it, “the god of immunology." But Smyth was a god who fell to earth and doubt now surrounds his work after a public unravelling. Today, The Age and Sydney Morning Herald's national science reporter Liam Mannix on Smyth’s so-called “lab of secrets”, and his faked data, which now underpins a cancer drug being given to patients. Subscribe to The Age & SMH: https://subscribe.smh.com.au/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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