Kim's 2006 paper suggested ideas for increasing the human lifespan by ``reprogramming'' cells ― the research earned him much publicity. South Korea's President Roh Moo-hyun invited him to the Blue House and KAIST President Suh Nam-pyo praised him as one of the most likely Korean candidates to win the Nobel Prize.
There were already complaints that Koreans were having a harder time publishing in international journals after the Hwang scandal. This won't help matters much.
Two major scandals from Korea in the space of a few years. Coincidence? Or just a peak at the systematic corruption that seems to be behind every institution in this country?
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PZ Myers of Pharyngula also investigated an interesting article from an Inje Professor (Busan?).
Here is the link
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula
/2008/02/a_baffling_failure_of_peer_rev.php
I broke the link so you'll have to put it in Wordpad or something and put it together (I'm a jerk that way I guess, or else long links don't work so well in comments).
Brian,
You can take long URLs to the site "tinyurl.com" and convert them to something manageable.
Kevin
It's not my blog; why should I go to all that work?
...and nobody ever linked to him again...
Yeah, I was lazy - I have begun doing that but forgot to this time.
Hello? Hello? Is this thing on? Can the people in the back hear me?
I am soooo close to putting up another post...
Just being nice and leaving a comment.. since no one else is.
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