Re:The first pictures of blood from a 10,000 year old Siberi...
by ChuckMcM on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @04:14PM
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One wonders though, his research was shown to be fraudulent but is his skill fraudulent? I mean guy the might be an excellent cell biologist that tried to short cut his way to fame and got caught, or he might be a complete fraud and not even be a passable biologist. Trying to find stuff about the man is difficult through all the articles about his downfall.
Re:The first pictures of blood from a 10,000 year old Siberi...
by uvdiv on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @05:34PM
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or he might be a complete fraud and not even be a passable biologist
He's genuinely one of the top researchers in the field (see: cloned dog).
Stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk's private bioengineering laboratory confirmed he is poised to make a bid to return the extinct Siberian mammoth to the planet.
Hwang Woo-suk is an extremely famous scientific fraud.
http://www.time.com/time/covers/asia/0,16641,20060109,00.htm...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/world/asia/27clone.html
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2006/11/28-01.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwang_Woo-suk
SEOUL, South Korea — Hwang Woo-suk, a disgraced cloning expert from South Korea who had claimed major breakthroughs in stem-cell research, was convicted Monday of falsifying his papers and embezzling government research funds. A judge sentenced him to a suspended two-year prison term, saying Dr. Hwang had shown remorse and had not taken research money for personal use.
Dr. Hwang was once hailed as a national hero in the South. His school, Seoul National University, disowned him in 2005, saying that he had fabricated the papers he had published to global acclaim.