Another scientist in South Korea gets busted for fabricating his research data. Professor Kim Tae-kook, who once said, he wanted to be “as famous as now-disgraced stem cell expert Hwang Woo-Suk has been caught faking his study.”

The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology suspended him for faking not one but two papers touting a breakthrough published in two journals. Apparently, he photo-shopped his images to suggests inaccurate results in publishing his research in 2005 and 2006 publications.

He certainly seems to be following in Hwang Woo-Suk’s footprints and well on his way to lost credibility. Ouch!


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Jennifer Lahl, CBC Founder
Jennifer Lahl, CBC Founder
Jennifer Lahl, MA, BSN, RN, is founder and president of The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network. Lahl couples her 25 years of experience as a pediatric critical care nurse, a hospital administrator, and a senior-level nursing manager with a deep passion to speak for those who have no voice. Lahl’s writings have appeared in various publications including Cambridge University Press, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Dallas Morning News, and the American Journal of Bioethics. As a field expert, she is routinely interviewed on radio and television including ABC, CBS, PBS, and NPR. She is also called upon to speak alongside lawmakers and members of the scientific community, even being invited to speak to members of the European Parliament in Brussels to address issues of egg trafficking; she has three times addressed the United Nations during the Commission on the Status of Women on egg and womb trafficking.