{"id":1880,"date":"2005-12-23T12:53:53","date_gmt":"2005-12-23T17:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/12\/fake_research\/"},"modified":"2005-12-23T12:53:53","modified_gmt":"2005-12-23T17:53:53","slug":"fake_research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/12\/fake_research\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Korean scientist resigns over fake stem cell research\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/genes\/article\/0,2763,1673508,00.html\">Uh oh<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A scientist today issued an apology as he resigned from South Korea&#8217;s top university after the school announced he had fabricated results in stem cell research that had raised hopes of new cures for hard-to-treat diseases.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\nEarlier today, a panel of experts at the university said Prof Hwang had faked results of at least nine of 11 stem cell lines he claimed to have created in the May paper &#8211; the first confirmation of allegations that have cast a shadow over all his purported breakthroughs in cloning and stem cell technology.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\nThe university panel said today it found that &#8220;the laboratory data for 11 stem cell lines that were reported in the 2005 paper were all data made using two stem cell lines in total&#8221;.<br \/>\nTo create fake DNA results purporting to show a match, Prof Hwang&#8217;s team split cells from one patient into two test tubes for the analysis &#8211; rather than actually match cloned cells to a patient&#8217;s original cells, the university said.<br \/>\n&#8220;Based on these facts, the data in the 2005 Science paper cannot be some error from a simple mistake, but can only be seen as a deliberate fabrication to make it look like 11 stem cell lines using results from just two,&#8221; the panel said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m clearly no expert on this, but isn&#8217;t this a little like a suspect in a high speed car chase trying to escape from a helicopter and six police cars?  The question being not if he is going to be caught, but when?  How long did this guy think he could keep lying indefinitely about his work, and no one find out?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/12\/fake_research\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Fake Research\"><p>Uh oh: A scientist today issued an apology as he resigned from South Korea&#8217;s top university after the school announced he had fabricated results in stem cell research that had raised hopes of new cures for hard-to-treat diseases. . . . Earlier today, a panel of experts at the university said Prof Hwang had faked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}