OK, Prof. Hwang Woo-suk is now claiming that he tried to clone a Korean tiger and a woolly mammoth.
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.
He claimed that for security reasons he was unable to discuss those projects up till now. He said three attempts were made to clone the mammoth, all of which ended in failure. He said the tiger was Korean, while the mammoth was Russian.
He was unable to present verifying this, however. Nor did he testify as to when the attempts took place or why they failed.
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I nearly cloned Han Chae-young, but my wife caught me and broke the test tube.
Woo-suck was used by American cloning scientists. The emperor without clothes was perfect for these chalatans to use as “see how other countries are advancing stem cell cloning business. We must use embryo spare parts”.
Congress both House and Senate approved this hideous use of “people parts”. Bush is the only man of honor who will KILL this bill.
Why should the government money be used in this non-sense and evil disregard of human sanctity? If it is going to work, private money will pour in. The truth is that it does not work. And, many of these stem cell people are exaggerating their results like Hwang.
Light Brothers built the whole plane by themselves. If this thing is going to work, it is going to work even by a private venture. There is no reason to pour government money into this shady “science”.
Am I an yahoo? No, I have a masters degree in Chemistry and another masters degree in computer science. I am familiar with science, especially this area. And, I am dead set against this “hit-and-miss” type of research using embryonic parts.
For a country that grimaces for eating dog parts, somehow it sees no wrong in playing with human parts. Shame on democrates and stupid Congress politicians.
Bush is right. He is the right man for the job.
you mean wright brothers.
Instead of mammoths and tigers, he should’ve done dinosaurs and gotten a three-movie Hollywood contract. Oh, wait…
> 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.
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.)
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!
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.
I think he succeeded in cloning the mammoth. But it came out a little small, so he called it Snuppy.
All I know is that if you want to clone a woolly mammoth, you’d better make sure your lab is big enough! /rimshot
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!!!
…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.
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?