Notes
For an excellent account of Hwang Woo Suk’s life and works, see Kim (2007).
Han Hak Soo, who was the principal producer of the PD Su-cheop’s episodes on Dr. Hwang, published a detailed story of the Hwang scandal in Han (2007). This book also contains valuable records of interviews with various people involved in the Hwang scandal.
The strategy of Hwang’s team consisted in maintaining that since their experiment would be replicated by other research teams in the near future, the replication of DNA testing would be unnecessary. This strategy was publicly criticized by Hong (2005) on the basis of some insights gained from science and technology studies on replication.
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Lawrence K. Altman and William J. Broad, “More Science, More Fraud,” New York Times (20 December 2005). The article starts with the passage that “The South Korean scandal that shook the world of science last week is just one sign of a global explosion in research that is outstripping the mechanisms meant to guard against error and fraud.”
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Hong, S. The Hwang Scandal that “Shook the World of Science”. East Asian Science 2, 1–7 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12280-008-9041-x
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