Comments on: Snuppies, mammoths and tigers, oh my!

By: Zonath

Zonath — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 22:18:18 +0000

In court to account for some 5 billion of 21 billion won in research funds (managed in a fake-name account), Hwang said he was unable to say where the money went, but that some of it may have been used in attempts to clone a tiger and a mammoth.

Well, at least it sounds better than “I squandered the money on whiskey and hookers.” Is the apparent cluelessness in what Hwang says in the original, or was that inserted into the translation? After all, some of the money may have been used for a number of things, from Hwang buying a new car to Hwang financing a drug ring. Who did his accounting? Merrill Lynch?

By: bluejives

bluejives — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:18:11 +0000

…he tried to clone a Korean tiger and a woolly mammoth.

That was because just in case Plan A didn’t work out, he could still get rich and famous by having his own Jurassic Park.

By: Sugar Shin

Sugar Shin — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:50:33 +0000

Hwang, this piece of human shit, should do the only thing a honorable man can do in this situation: jumping from the frickin’ 63 building with a metal chopstick jacked up in his sorry ass. SUICIDE is a solution, sucker!!!

By: sewing

sewing — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 18:24:52 +0000

All I know is that if you want to clone a woolly mammoth, you’d better make sure your lab is big enough! /rimshot

By: Haisan

Haisan — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:37:06 +0000

I think he succeeded in cloning the mammoth. But it came out a little small, so he called it Snuppy.

By: Robert Koehler

Robert Koehler — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:47:48 +0000

An editorial comment? About this? Well, OK. Yeah, I guess it’s plausible that he tried. It’s not like he said he did clone a mammoth; he admits they failed. Being plausible is not the same as being likely, however, and given Hwang’s track record, I’m not as inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt as I once was.

By: shakuhachi

shakuhachi — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:36:01 +0000

Robert, I would like to hear what you think about it. Do you think what he is saying is plausible, or not? Give us an editorial comment!

By: Zonath

Zonath — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:14:29 +0000

I have a masters degree in Chemistry and another masters degree in computer science.

The only degree you have is a B.A. in B.S. (Hwang, on the other hand, seems to have gotten his Ph.D in the subject.)

By: Haisan

Haisan — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 08:32:30 +0000

> If it is going to work, private money will pour in.

And how is this different than any other branch of science? Sounds to me like a criticism of the oversight, not the science itself.

By: Wedge

Wedge — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 08:23:24 +0000

Instead of mammoths and tigers, he should’ve done dinosaurs and gotten a three-movie Hollywood contract. Oh, wait…