Posted on 12/15/2005 12:28:32 PM PST by neverdem
SEOUL, South Korea, Dec. 15 - Hwang Woo Suk, the scientist who stunned the world by announcing breakthroughs in stem cell and cloning research, faked a landmark research paper, one of his South Korean co-authors said today in television and newspaper interviews.
Dr. Hwang and his aides, who had vehemently defended the paper published in the journal Science in June, were not immediately available for comment on the assertion by Roh Sung Il, , one of Dr. Hwang's 24 co-authors for the June paper, that the scientific finding was falsified.
Mr. Roh, the administrator of MizMedi Hospital in Seoul, told the South Korean daily Hankyoreh that there were no authentically created stem cells presented for the Science paper, according to an article on the newspaper's Web site this evening.
In an interview broadcast on MBC television, Mr. Roh said Dr. Hwang appeared to have created stem cell lines that were later destroyed because of a virus infection.
Dr. Hwang took stem cell lines from Mr. Roh's laboratory that had nothing to do with Dr. Hwang's research and presented them for the Science paper, Mr. Roh said. He said that nine of the 11 stem cell lines in the study were faked and that the other two were dubious.
In the June paper, Dr. Hwang's team reported that it had cloned human embryos and extracted the 11 stem cell lines, which Dr. Hwang said matched the DNA of patients.
That result seemed a major breakthrough because it raised hopes that scientists might one day help patients suffering from illnesses like Parkinson's disease or diabetes grow their own replacement cells to cure their ailments.
In a February 2004 paper also published in Science, Dr. Hwang's team claimed to have cloned the world's first human embryo and extracted a line of stem cells...
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Fake but accurate?
LOL....surprise, surprise, surprise! Wait until the BS of the global warming "experts" is exposed......"I sold my reputation for grants"..........
Hwang Wu Suk, yu suk?
I'm glad to see the alleged benefits of this immoral practice debunked.
Dr. Hwang Woo Suk? He stole my asian porno name!
Suk research suk?
Wonder what his take was on global warming?
Immoral? Do tell.
What a name!
"Suk research suk?"
Research for long time, what you like, got twenty thousand buck?
Where's the surprise.
If you haven't the morals to respect life then why should you be expected to respect the truth.
Listen to satan for killing the God-created embryos, listen to satan for everything.
But, but,.... John Edwards said Superman would fly again.
Anymore, science is so politicized that it is totally ridiculous. I love scientific periodicals but most of them are so full of liberal political garbage and junk-science that I can barely stand to read any of them anymore. /rant off
Hwang Woo Suk will suk for research buk.
"I love scientific periodicals but most of them are so full of liberal political garbage and junk-science that I can barely stand to read any of them anymore."
I still subscribe to several, Scientific American, Popular Science and Discover, but they're becoming more strident by the issue, and are apparently incapable of recognizing how utterly politicised their own views have become.
You got that right. I used to love Discover. My wife got me a subscription 6 months ago and I won't be renewing it. EVERY article has a liberal rant about global warming injected into it. Think a story about neutron stars and black holes in space won't have a reference to global warming? Discover manages to do it!
Luckily, for us, the Internet is the new standard bearer for truth. I can't even imagine where we would be without it....
National Geographic has been descending into the abyss of PC liberalism too.
IIRC, the head scientist behind the fraud is a veterinarian? I wonder if he will still be able to work.
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