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The searchable database of retracted papers launched by RetractionWatch shows 982 papers from India have been retracted so far. Of these, 330 have been retracted for plagiarism and, surprisingly, 118…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
