S. Korea's Hwang Likely Knew of Fraud, Court Told

[Rosalinda]

More scandal on ESC research fraud. The exposed, weak underbelly of the latest pseudoscience being foisted unto an unsuspecting public.

…“I was aware at the time of the possibility that data were being manipulated,” said Lee Byeong-chun, a professor at Seoul National University. Lee was a key member of Hwang’s team that produced two landmark papers, which were later debunked.
Lee told a court he could not muster the courage at the time to question Hwang.
Another scientist said he replaced a stem cell line in the team’s 2004 project with a cultivated cell line from a fertilized embryo when the team was faced with a devastating failure in growing stem cell lines using cloned human embryos…

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