It appears that fraud is not indigenous to Parliament Hill anymore. The South Koreans seem to be in a bit of a tizzy of late. The story involves Hwang Woo-Suk. (everybody together now. "Woo-Suk Woo-Suk.") Seems Hwang published scientific papers dealing with stem cell research that are now viewed as fraudulent by a panel led by Chung Myung-He.
SEOUL (Reuters) - A team led by a once heralded and now disgraced South Korean scientist faked two landmark papers on embryonic stem cells but did produce the world's first cloned dog, an investigation panel said on Tuesday.
A cloned dog? Do you know what this means? No one in South Korea would ever go hungry again.
The panel said DNA tests proved a 2005 claim made by the team of producing the cloned dog, an Afghan hound named Snuppy.
What? They couldn’t think of a better name like--- Insert "Some-young-guy" joke here.
Snuppy, is short for Seoul National University puppy.
Oh, sorry. I retract my previous remarks.
That paper caused a sensation because the findings raised hopes that embryonic stem cells could one day be used to create genetically-specific tissue to treat ailments such as severe spinal cord injuries and Parkinson's disease.
"We concluded that Professor Hwang's team did not have patient-specific stem cell lines and did not have any scientific basis that the team made them," Chung said.
That's nitpicking isn't it?
Prosecutors have said they may start a criminal probe into Hwang on suspicion of misusing state funds, based on the findings in the panel's report.
The crime of fraudulently obtaining state funds can be punished by...
Death? Public decapitation? Disembowelment?
...up to 10 years in prison, local media reported.
Awww...
Anyway if you’re having problems sleeping at night just read the rest of the story here.
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