You think that bogus work doesn't siphon funds away from good quality research? What universe do you live in? With a 10% pay line, even most good research won't get funded. For bogus research to get funded, better work MUST go unfunded. Guaranteed that will lead to more dead kids and a longer wait for effective treatments.

And if Rubin was falsifying data, then so much the better if it wipes him out. Few things are more disgusting than preying on the horrible situation of kids with rare diseases just to crank out research indirects and promotions, mostly on the backs of slave-labor postdocs with no alternative employment in this country.

So, to sum, if Rubin falsified the work, fuck him twice as hard as other frauds for his mendacity.

If he did not, and this is all much ado over nothing, then I sincerely hope he will be vindicated and I wish him the best.