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[billybrobby]

This story continues to fascinate me.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1145236,00.html

This is an interesting article, especially this bit:

[mindmetoo]

It's probably the same kind of downward spiral that makes people think they have psychic powers and can talk to the dead. They begin to believe their own PR.

Hwang had a few successes, thought he had the answer, and decided to fudge the data because he was so certain his theory was sound... the real data would just, you know, come along later. Once he had the money... (In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the wome... errr stem cells.)

This means, of course, getting a lot of people to drink your kool aid. Eventually, as we saw, they're not going to watch you strut around like the savior of Korea and party with Korean Air first class stewardesses while they fly coach and are forced to open wide and swallow your spunk. Eventually they're going to realize only their silence is keeping this guy in first class stewardesses. One phone call to PD Notebook and...

The best part is where he's claiming other jealous researchers switched normal cells for his cloned cells. But people have been point out "well, you yourself made a big deal about how you were the first one there every morning and there were plenty of eyes on those cells all the time..." It would have taken the cooperation of basically everyone BUT Hwang to make the switch. Hwang Wooyou Suk wants the cops to investigate his claim. Yeah. They'll get right on that, ass face.

[djsmnc]

[Dan The Chainsawman]

Lesson of the decade:

Don't get high on your own supply.

[Ya-ta Boy]

[mindmetoo]

[ulsanchris]

here is a link to an article that says Hwang pressured the assistants into "donating" their eggs. http[url]://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2006/01/03/200601030027.asp[/url]
A bit of good news for Hwang. He did manage to successfuly clone a dog. That has been confirmed.

[endo]

Before the scandle, he was hailed as a national hero in South Korea. He represented the future for the country and the Korean people. Dr. Hwang even went as far to say that his sucess was partially based on his use of chop sticks, which gave him an advantage because it allowed him to get at the stem cells better or something.

This idea of chop sticks was linked by the doctor and national media to the Korean people (i.e. linking the doctors success to nationalism). In other words, Dr. Hwang was abel to achieve his success because fisrt and foremost he was a Korean. This made many foreigners over here snicker, as nationalism and the idea that Koreans are of a superior race is quite strong in Korean culture.

Therefore when the story broke that the doctor had produced fradgulent research, it was quite a dissapointment for the Korean people. Being in the large shadow of China and Japan, many Koreans feel a need to prove themselves and show that they were the best. I think the doctor himself was caught up in these nationalistic feelings and doctored his research because he felt a lot of pressure to continue his success.

In the end I really feel bad for the Koreans and i'm starting to understand the root causes of the high nationalism over here.

Basically, if the Korean people were not nationalistic (retaining their own language and culture), there wouldn't be a Korea. The pennensula would be a part of Japan or China.

[mindmetoo]

[endo]

Enough of this doctor; who is that girl in your avatar mindmetoo? She's beautiful!

[billybrobby]

[Shooter McGavin]

[babtangee]

bragging about hooker hill bait? Who would do such a thing...?












Just kiddin' dude... but someone's bound to say something of the sort.

[BigBlackEquus]

As has been stated before, Mindmetoo is one of Derrek's socks, and the avatar/girlfriend situation is more than a good example of his typical shennanigans.

[billybrobby]