His major sins were of Greed and Pride. Greed in that he wanted to claim more then he actually accomplished and Pride in the fact that he tried to cover it up and worse, reveled in all the attention.

In the genetics academic community, the cloning of human embryos is the holy grail. Had Hwang just been happy with proving parthenogenesis and successfully cloning dogs, then he probably would of gotten the funding he so desired and his reputation would of remained intact. With the funding and momentum from those two small, but at the same time huge steps, he may well be on his way to figuring out if human cloning was possible.

In other words, he picked the most lucrative explanation.

“In his 2004 paper, he and his co-authors addressed the possibility of parthenogenesis. They wrote that they couldn’t completely rule it out, but they presented evidence to support their claim of cloning.”

But, that said, I’m not jumping on any wankin wagon regardless. I have a lot of doubts about anything claimed in the paper.

The point of the article is that while Hwang and the boys were busy fabricating data that they FAILED TO RECOGNIZE an important research accomplishment staring them in the face.

Yes, this is an important distinction you have made. His work may have produced results but at what expense to his profession and Korean scientists alike?

You don’t know much about scientific research, do you?

So, let’s entertain the idea that the conclusions of this paper are correct (it could still be wrong. It needs to go through peer-review first), it wouldn’t absolve Wang of all suspicion. Parthenogenesis and cloning are two very different things after all. And, no, there is no proof that they ‘failed to recognize an important research accomplishment staring them in the face’ as Warren suggests. The inability to recognize a serendipitous moment may not have had anything to do with it, actually. Producing a breakthrough in cloning research is far more prestigious than that of a breakthrough in parthenogenesis in the eyes of the general public, and therefore it is also far more lucrative, both financially and reputation-wise.

Yes, the Nobel prize.Not the one that you receive at Oslo, though, but this one which you receive at the Harvard University.
http://improbable.com/ig/

http://english.yonhapnews.co.k.....0320F.HTML

“NEW YORK (AP) — Remember the spectacular South Korean stem cell fraud of a few years ago? A new analysis says the disgraced scientist actually did reach a long-sought scientific goal. It’s just not the one he claimed.

The new study suggests Hwang Woo-suk and his team produced stem cells — not through cloning as they contended — but through a different process called parthenogenesis.

That, too, is an achievement scientists have long been pursuing.”
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The point of the article is that while Hwang and the boys were busy fabricating data that they FAILED TO RECOGNIZE an important research accomplishment staring them in the face.

There is nothing that vindicates “The Pride of Korea.” He’s still a punk.