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Heritage Project — The fake news about James Neel

January 23, 2023

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James van Gundia Neel died of cancer at his home in Ann Arbor on the first day of February 2000. He was 84. He was promptly memorialized as one of the greatest scientists in U-M's history. But a few months after his death, he was accused of causing a deadly epidemic among Indigenous villagers in the Amazon rainforest. — Read the full story on the Heritage Project. Click on the image to enlarge.

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