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Societal Consequences of Scientific Misconduct

  • November 23, 2026
  • 12:00 PM
  • Northside Events Center and Social Club 2100 E 71st Street

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Speaker: Stanley Spinola

This talk will examine the public health consequences of both unethical medical experiments and scientific misconduct. The Mengele twin studies and other Nazi medical experiments directly affected Eva Moses Kor and thousands of others but led to ethical codes governing human research. After the US had achieved measles elimination status in 2000, a study asserting an association between the MMR vaccine and autism has played a major role in the increase in cases of measles in the US. The speaker will examine the roles that unethical experiments, scientists, institutions, and journals played in the false association between the MMR and autism.


Stanley M. Spinola received a B.A. in Biology from Brown University in 1974 and a M.D. from Georgetown University in 1978. He completed a residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina in 1982 and served in the National Health Service Corps in rural North Carolina from 1982 to 1984. He completed a fellowship in Adult and Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of North Carolina in 1987. From 1987 to 1993, Dr. Spinola was on the faculty at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He came to Indiana University School of Medicine in 1993 to join the Division of Infectious Diseases and was the Division Director from 1995 to 2010 and the Chair of Microbiology and Immunology from 2010-2019. He retired in January 2026 and is currently a Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. His NIH funded research focused on how bacteria cause disease in humans and the ethics human research.

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