Snip from NYT story by Nicholas Wade:
Dr. Hwang Woo Suk, the South Korean researcher who claimed to have cloned human cells, fabricated evidence for all of that research, according to a report released today by a Seoul National University panel investigating his work.
The finding strips any possibility of legitimate achievement in human cell cloning from a researcher who had been propelled to international celebrity and whose promise to make paralyzed people walk had been engraved on a Korean postage stamp.
In his string of splashy papers, his one legitimate claim was to have cloned the dog he named Snuppy, the panel said.
“Dr. Hwang’s team cannot avoid taking grave responsibility for fabricating its papers and concealing data,” said Chung Myunghee, the head of the university’s investigatory panel.
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