The man who faked human cloning
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as a gripping account of scientific fraud and the history of cloning research.
What it is
BobbyBroccoli's first of two long documentaries about Hwang Woo-suk, the South Korean scientist who faked human cloning results. It tells the story of the scandal that shook a country.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2023 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Recommends xmprt · 2023-10 · on “Don't worry about global population collapse”
Wars don't just appear out of thin air. There were a lot of incentives for countries to engage in war. Cloning doesn't really benefit anyone and doing cloning requires a ton of funding and grants and ethics boards reviews. If you're interested in the history of human cloning (and where that field of research is trending towards), I'd recommend watching this video [1]. Full human cloning is somewhat pointless however the research has lead to innovations in stem cell research which does have real benefits for things like organ transplants. [1] [this video]
Recommends mbaye · 2023-12 · on “Ask HN: What are the YouTube channel worth to follow in 2024?”
Bobby Broccoli: [LINK] Documentaries about daring scientific fraud such as "The man who tried to fake an element" [LINK] or "The man who faked human cloning" [this video] Or the epic tale of political intrigue in "The $21,000,000,000 hole in Texas" [LINK] about the The Superconducting Super Collider that never was.
Cites ouraf · 2023-07 · on “Johnson and Johnson sues researchers who linked talc to cancer”
It is as bad in medicine, if not worse. Recently a very influential paper about alzheimer was pulled[1] because of almost everything you said, but for biology instead: data fabrication, overestimating numbers, etc. There's also a case related with cloning (which includes stem cell research) and massive fraud in South Korea 20 or so years ago.[2] It's a complicated matter: research is a beacon of light on top of a mountain of failed experiments. And not even the government will fund a mountain of failures if your shining discovery at the end can't bring returns to society (or shareholders) in greater value than what you took. And the pharmaceutical industry never settled for small results. An
Cites evrimoztamur · 2023-07 · on “Argonne National Lab is attempting to replicate LK-99”
...or the next BobbyBroccoli special like the one on Hwang Woo-suk, the man who faked human cloning ( [this video] ). Not claiming the researchers of LK99 are intentionally faking their results, by the way!