The other day I posted on China’s proposed new labor laws, in a post entitled, China’s Proposed Labor Law:Going After Capitalists Like China, 1967. Got a great comment from Seoul super-lawyer, Brendan Carr, that is so good and so helpful,…

Thank goodness scientific method is more effective than blogging. If it’s real, and works, then the findings will be repeated and we’ll be safe from cancer. If it’s crap, it’s crap, and science will discard it… but without the ignominy that Hwang earned for himself, unless of course results have been faked. Most likely, it’ll add up to a couple of drops in the bucket supporting someone else, which will support someone else… because labs all over the world are doing this kind of research right now, and it’s so complicated that this is the way science is done now… tiny steps forward in understanding, with the odd team lucking out with something big. The Korean press may not have caught up with this fact, the Korean newspaper-buying public may still want its Einstein, but science is much less like that now. Still, it’s stupid to dismiss all Korean scientists because Hwang got away with faking for so long.

(It’s less stupid to criticize the University that employed such a faker, or the public that took him up as a hero without the vaguest understanding of his claims, or how ridiculously he behaved. It’s totally fine to criticize Hwang. But to tar all Korean scientists by his brush is just moronic. If we did that, there’d be no country left whose scientists we could respect and trust.)

As for the claims being made: listen to Cat. Cat knows more about this than anyone else who’s posted. (And probably much more than me.)

Sewing: Yes, you recall correctly about something weird with telomeres and cancer. Cancer cells are “immortal” which means they don’t have the same kind of reproductive restrictions as normal somatic cells have, which is limited by telomeres. This has actually led to speculation that the only other common kinds of cells in the body that we know about which are technically “immortal” in this way — stem cells — may be the root from which cancers spring. At least, that’s what I was reading this summer, when I was reading up on the Hayflick limit.

She seems to be a real McCoy. She is a “certified” scientist from the USA, not like Hwang asshole. And, she talks like a real scientist, using moderate tones on her discovery and stressing further study. I wish Korean government send more money to her direction.

Using a genetically altered virus to cure cancer seems to be a good way to go. This holds more promise than “cloning” lies. Korea should spend more resources in this endeavor while cutting off funding for cloning research. This “genetically altered virus cure” may bring more money to Korea than Samsung.

- Yesterday’s interview with Dr. Yun …

But it was reported by YTN and SBS, which I would consider major.

http://news.naver.com/news/rea.....enu_id=105
http://news.naver.com/news/rea.....enu_id=103

“Virii” is not a functional word.