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Hwang Woo-suk became the first researcher in the world to clone a dog, an Afghan hound named Snuppy, in 2005. / Korea Times file |
By Andrew Salmon
For a nation in which educational attainment is massively respected and high technologies are passionately embraced, the Seoul National University professor stood, poised, on the brink of global superstardom. Not only was he smooth, charming, intelligent and charismatic, the nation rallied around the scientist who might be in line for a Nobel Prize and whose name might ― just might ― one day be uttered in the same breath as those of Newton, Darwin, Curie, Einstein and Fleming.
Alas, it was not to be. The fall from grace of stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk would be as spectacular as his meteoric ascent.
Poor scientist and the stem cell God squad
Hwang was born to a poor family in 1953, the year the devastating Korean War stuttered to an uncertain end. His father died when he was five but Hwang harbored the dream of being a
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Timeline of a controversy
Concerns about ethics, errors (accidental or intentional) and possible fraud have dogged the stem-cell researcher Woo Suk Hwang, from Seoul National University in South Korea, since his landmark 2004 Science paper on stem cells from a cloned human embryo. Here news@nature.com describes how events have unfolded from that initial paper - with the most recent events presented first (you may want to read from the bottom-up the first time you read this). Keep checking back for updates over the coming weeks.
31 October 2006
A confident and defiant Hwang takes the stand for the first time in court. The defence denies allegations of fraud and embezzlement, and has prepared a case against the charge of violating the bioethics law for the next hearing. A verdict may be handed down by the end of the year.
12 May 2006
Hwang is indicted today on three charges. The Seoul Central District prosecutor’s office charges him w
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Abstract
Scientific misconduct and fraud occur in science. The (anonymous) peer review process serves as goalkeeper of scientific quality rather than scientific integrity. In this brief paper we describe some limitations of the peer-review process. We describe the catastrophic facts of the ‘Woo-Suk Hwang fraud case’ and raise some ethical concerns about the issue. Finally, we pay attention to plagiarism, autoplagiarism and double publications. (Neth Heart J 2009;17:25-9.)
Keywords: double publications, fraud, scientific misconduct, peer review; plagiarism, stem fängelse research
Unfortunately, fraud exists in science and several examples and degrees in terms of severity have been described.1 Fraud should not be confused with publication bias, which concerns both the tendency to overpublication of studies with a positive outcome and the opposite for studies with a negativ outcome, including the unconscious incentives of the researchers involved. The theoretical aspects of the la