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In the years before Varmus became the director of NIH, the agency's reputation had suffered under allegations of falsified research and scientific fraud, mismanagement, and sagging morale, as this critique by the eminent geneticist Gunther Stent indicates.
Original Repository:
University of California, San Francisco. Archives and Special Collections. Harold E. Varmus Papers