Disgraced Embryonic Stem Cell Researcher Used Money to Clone Mammoths

LifeNews ^ | 7/25/06 | Steven Ertelt

[wagglebee]

But it would probably float!

[Junior]

A "Pleistocene Park" ping.

[JohnnyZ]

Ha ha ha, I mean I'm sure I don't know who that is.

[July 4th]

I vote for cool. Maybe when he's done, he can work on the saber-tooth tiger.

[CollegeRepublican]

[Godebert]

"Prosecutor Lee In-kyu also said Hwang embezzled $900,000 in private and government donations to the research. After getting more than $35 billion in research funds from the government and private donors, South Korean prosecutors say Hwang misused much of the money by laundering it through 63 bank accounts set up under false names."

$35 Billion? That doesn't sound right.

[wagglebee]

I have a feeling it's a typo and they meant MILLION.

[bukkdems]

If he were succesfull cloning the mammoth, liberals would attack him for "deracinating" the little fellow, because he would have to grow up with no other indigenous mammoths.

[freedumb2003]

I am getting out my stopwatch to see how long it takes for the Luddite crowd to use this as "proof" that scientific research should not be done and/or TToE is false.

[TheMole]

He also indicated he deposited research funds into bank accounts under the names of colleagues and frequently withdrew large sums of money and put it in suitcases and took it to undisclosed locations.

"Some of it had to go to uses of a highly classified nature," he said, according to the Reuters report.

A highly classified nature ROFLMAO. More seriously, at least the Koreans are prosecuting this guy. Too bad the same kind of scrutiny isn't being applied to the billions of dollars thrown at AIDS research and many other "scientific" boondoggles.

[syriacus]

Hwang Woo Suk

The pressure for cloning's so great
That a researcher might take the bait
And "doctor" his finds
To mislead weaker minds
Proving -- greed is a strong human trait

[Sun]

"Hwang Woo Suk

The pressure for cloning's so great
That a researcher might take the bait
And "doctor" his finds
To mislead weaker minds
Proving -- greed is a strong human trait"

Very good. Did you write that?

[Joe 6-pack]

"Granted, but I still think the mammoth thing is cool."

I think it's cruel. There's no way a wooly mammoth would suffer global warming unless it was clipped regularly, and I don't think you could even find enough mexicans willing to shave the mammoths Americans won't shave.

[Calpernia]

Related:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1568683/posts
A Real-Life Jurassic Park

Important post at that thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1568683/posts?page=9#9

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1545856/posts
Woolly mammoth genome comes to life (Jurassic Park, here we come)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1669608/posts
Pterosaur-like Creatures Reported in Papua New Guinea
(my note: found? Or brought back??)

[syriacus]

Yes. Thank you.

[8mmMauser]

Pinged from Terri JULY Dailies

8mm

[SunkenCiv]

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