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Colombian science minister’s cancer claims spark controversy

Mabel Torres, the leader of Colombia’s new science agency, says she has created a fungus extract that can treat cancer.
  1. Emiliano Rodríguez Mega
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Colombian scientists celebrated the creation of the country’s first Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation early last month as a step that would capture more resources for research and put science at the highest level of government. Yet, in just a few weeks that initial excitement has given way to anger and confusion over the appointment of the science minister Mabel Torres.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00235-w

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