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  • Con Men in Lab Coats [how science corrects itself]

    03/05/2006 10:14:03 AM PST · by PatrickHenry · 841 replies · 9,409+ views
    Scientific American ^ | March 2006 | By the editors
    Five decades after it was revealed as a forgery, the Piltdown man still haunts paleoanthropology. Now, thanks to the disgraced stem cell researcher Woo Suk Hwang, cell biology has a high-profile scandal of its own to live down. Few recent papers in biology have soared as high in acclaim as Hwang's 2004 and 2005 announcements of cloning human embryonic stem cells -- or plummeted as fast into infamy with the discovery that they were rank fakes. Embryonic stem cell (ESC) research is no less promising today than it was before Hwang's deceit was revealed; most investigators continue to believe that...
  • Another Cloning "Breakthrough", The World's First Phony Stem Cells

    12/28/2005 8:47:54 PM PST · by Coleus · 7 replies · 434+ views
    the weekly Standard ^ | 01.02.06 | Wesley J. Smith, Esq.
    In February 2004, Woo--Suk Hwang made world headlines when he claimed to have cloned human embryos using a technique called somatic cell nuclear transfer, and then to have derived a line of stem cells from the embryos that could be used for medical research. Enthusiasm for this first "successful" experiment in human cloning, published in the prestigious peer--reviewed journal Science, was tempered by the inefficiency of the process: It took 242 human eggs to get just one embryonic stem cell line.That problem seemed solved when, last May, Hwang published another article in Science asserting that he had again successfully...