Hwang faked 2004 thesis; Schatten stealin’ patents

More Dr. Hwang crap:

  • In an exclusive interview with the Gyeonin Ilbo, Prof. Hwang Woo-suk and his researchers reportedly said the team’s 2004 paper in Science was also fake, although one researcher still claims the results were legit.  I haven’t seen the interview (I’m just reading about it through NoCut News), but I’m sure there will be more on it later.  UPDATE: English piece here, via the Korea Times.
  • The evil Dr. Gerald Schatten tried to steal one of Hwang’s patents, reports the Pittsburgh Tribune Review (through the Korea Times).  Of course, at this point, I’m wondering if there was anything really to steal.
  • A report in the Chicago Sun Times (hat tip to reader) looks at the role Korea’s authoritarian lab culture might have had in the scandal.

More later.  If there is more.  And if I care.

This entry was written by Robert Koehler, posted on January 9, 2006 at 10:17 am, filed under South Korea. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.

8 Comments

  1. Kimbob your flag
    Posted January 9, 2006 at 11:05 am | Permalink

    This is what Pittsburg Tribune says:

    http://www.pittsburghlive.com/.....11230.html

    I’m still scratching my head.

  2. Katz your flag
    Posted January 10, 2006 at 3:07 am | Permalink

    It could clearly see in his face that this Schatten was trying something bad.

  3. kushibo your flag
    Posted January 10, 2006 at 11:49 am | Permalink

    Thanks for that link, Kimbob.

    Interesting that these “discredited” scientists seem to think that there is value in their “failed” work.

    My favorite quote from the Pittsburgh article was this:”I think that it is outrageous that the University of Pittsburgh refuses to discuss its patent claims on a technology that was funded by the U.S. taxpayers,” said Merrill Goozner, director of the Integrity in Science project at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a Washington, D.C.-based science watchdog nonprofit group. I

  4. kushibo your flag
    Posted January 10, 2006 at 11:51 am | Permalink

    Yonhap says that SNU has declared Hwang’s 2004 study also falsified.

  5. Michael your flag
    Posted January 10, 2006 at 4:02 pm | Permalink

    SNU said Snuppy is really a cloned mung-mung, so I wonder if this will let Hwang off a little easier.

  6. kushibo your flag
    Posted January 10, 2006 at 4:37 pm | Permalink

    Baduk made claims that Dolly was not real. Does he assert Snuppy is not real either?

  7. Michael your flag
    Posted January 10, 2006 at 4:44 pm | Permalink

    I vaguely remember Baduk saying the dog wasn’t cloned, but I’m not going to dig through the comments to find it. It had something to do with a split embryo?

  8. Horace Jeffery Hodges your flag
    Posted January 11, 2006 at 10:51 am | Permalink

    I don’t recall Baduk’s argument on Snuppy, but I have posted on my blog a question, which for ease of reference, I reproduce here:

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