CSIR sends a strong message to Indian scientists
In a rare and highly commendable move that has sent out a strong message to the Indian scientific community, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has dismissed a…
Category: Hwang Woo Suk
Editorial: A blot on Indian science
That getting papers published in scientific journals, reputable ones included, using manufactured data is virtually child’s play has been made painfully evident by a team of scientists at the Chandigarh-based…
Duplication of images in stem cell papers spotted
After Hwang Woo Suk of Seoul National University plunged into ignominy for duplicating images and for other unethical practices in the June 2005 paper on stem cell study in the…
Editorial: Cheating science
Published in The Hindu on January 26, 2012 Ever since the disgraced South Korean stem cell researcher Hwang Woo-Suk’s fraud in the papers retracted by Science in 2004 and 2005…
The future for Hwang Woo Suk does not look gloomy
Published in The Hindu on October 28, 2009 After becoming the pride of South Korea and gaining worldwide fame due to his ‘seminal’ work on human embryonic stem cell research…
Editorial: Setback to science
Published in The Hindu on November 9, 2009 The career of the disgraced South Korean stem cell researcher, Hwang Woo Suk, came to an intriguing end when a court handed…
Hwang Woo Suk – down but not out
After becoming the pride of South Korea and gaining worldwide fame due to his `seminal’ work on human embryonic stem cell research published in the journal Science in March 2004,…
Celecoxib: a big research fraud stands exposed
Published in The Hindu on March 19, 2009 One of the biggest research frauds in recent times has come to light. At last count, 21 of the 72 papers published…
