Panel To Investigate Scientist For Cloning Claims

collegetoad writes "A panel of scientists from the Seoul National University will investigate scientist Hwang Woo-suk on whether he committed fraud in claiming he had developed tailored embryonic stem cells. From the article: 'Hwang also said in a paper published in 2004 in the journal Nature, that he had cloned, for the first time, a human cell to provide a source of embryonic stem cells -- master cells that can provide a source of any type of tissue or cell in the body.'" We've reported on this previously.

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Nature & Science journals disgraced (finally)

[BadassJesus]

Lets be gentle here, lets say that these authoritative journals
missinformed us "a little" this time. Not a big deal, it happens, we understand. Nobody could be right all the time.






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Re:Sarbanes Oxley?

[MOBE2001]

Science takes care of its own, in its own way. THis is what peer review is for.

Obviously peer review has failed in this case. He was able to publish his crap in reputable science journals for years and peer review never caught on. One wonders how much more crap is making it past peer review. I suspect a lot. Peer review seems to be a good old boy mechanism used by the scientific community to keep itself above public scrutiny and checks and balances. Science is now no better than a guild looking out for its own self interest and profit.

Luckily, thanks to the internet, we are seeing a trend toward democracy in every field of human knowledge: Wikipedia, digg, etc... Hopefully, scientific knowledge dissemination and creation will be democratized as well. After all, it's the public's money who pays for it all.

Re:Hopefully

[ArsonSmith]

If I ever met him, I'd be like "Whang Woo-Suk, you're Wrong! You suck."

Then I'd stomp off and feel satisfied.