Spectacular science fraud shakes stem cell field

ap on San Diego Union Tribune ^ | 12/23/05 | Paul Elias and Malcolm Ritter - ap

[NormsRevenge]

South Korean stem cell researcher Hwang Woo-suk apologizes to the nation as one of Hwang's students, right, cries at Seoul National University in Seoul, Friday. (AP/Lee Jin-man)

[indcons]

Korean bloggers busted him.....one more victory for the blogosphere.

[keithtoo]

Scientific Fraud???? Impossible!

Just ask the Evol-Doers. Science is always pure. Never biased. Always seeking truth.

[appleharvey]

Science is always pure. Never biased. Always seeking truth.

You are exactly right. Just ask the global warming activists.

[ndt]

"Just ask the Evol-Doers. Science is always pure."

Jim and Tammy. What does it mean to you?

[razorback-bert]

public confidence in their work had been weakened by a sham branded by experts as the most visible case of scientific fraud they could recall.

Global Warming?

[mlc9852]

Piltdown Man?

[Bigg Red]

"It's a stain on the honor and integrity of the whole field,"

&&
Cloning human embryos is stain on the honor and integrity of medical science.

[ndt]

"Piltdown Man?"

Jimmy Swaggart?

[razorback-bert]

Cold fusion

[keithtoo]

Jim and Tammy were frauds, just like Paul and Jan.

Nebraska Man? Piltdown Man? Java Man? Peking Man? Archaeopteryx (coming soon)?

[ndt]

OK, people just say it so we can get it over with. Here I'll do it for you.

Because this man is a fraud, what ever scientific field you disagree with must be wrong.

Hogwash

[UB355]

mark

[ndt]

"Jim and Tammy were frauds, just like Paul and Jan."

And does that mean Christianity is a fraud? If not, why not?

[Brilliant]

Why don't they stop grabbing at money, and start researching?

[Semper Paratus]

Fake but accurate PING!

[Steely Tom]

The controversy over embryonic stem cells made Hwang's claims so newsworthy, said Fred Grinnell, founder of the ethics in science and medicine program at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

Gee, and I thought it was because any story that helps the pro-abortion lobby (which includes the entire MSM down to the last man, woman, and "other") justify their trade as something that's going to open the door to a cure for every malady up to and including old age itself is trumpeted to the sky in a mad frenzy. I'm probably too cynical about this.

riiight

[wouldntbprudent]

Okay, think about the dim-Rats who actually based their political position in the presidential election on stem cells!

[Leatherneck_MT]

Not all science is a fraud

Just like not all religious leaders are frauds.

But human beings as a whole are sinful creatures

Thus the potential for fraud in all areas of human endeavor.