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Science in culture: Stamping his authority

Martin Kemp1

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The Hwang scandal highlights the dangers of hyping science.

The repercussions of the falsification of stem-cell research by Korean scientist Woo Suk Hwang will reverberate around the scientific community for years to come. And the public dimension seems just as momentous, especially when we consider the mechanisms that elevated this former veterinarian, who was famous only in his home country in 1999, to become one of Time magazine's people of the year in 2004.