Posted on 07/04/2006 5:00:19 PM PDT by I'm ALL Right!
By BO-MI LIM
Associated Press Writer
SEOUL, South Korea
A discredited South Korean cloning scientist admitted in court Tuesday to ordering subordinates to falsify stem cell data for a paper in a scientific journal, but he denied violating a bioethics law.
Hwang Woo-suk, who falsely claimed breakthroughs in creating stem cells from cloned human embryos, testified at the second hearing of a trial in which he is accused of accepting funds under false pretenses, embezzlement and violating the bioethics law by purchasing eggs for research.
For a 2005 paper in the journal Science, Hwang acknowledged that he told researchers to make it appear as if they were basing their results on 11 stem cell lines, rather than the two they were working with.
"I do not want to ignore or deny this as the chief person responsible for the research," Hwang testified.
Hwang had previously admitted to inflating some data for his research claims...
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Try Neverdem, may be wrong, but he is a cool stem cell/medical pinger.
Heh heh.
Woo, it must Suk to be Hwang, Dude.
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