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WASHINGTON -- The stunning revelation that a South Korean researcher faked landmark stem cell experiments has sparked an intense new debate about the safeguards designed to prevent and catch scientific fraud.
While it remains unclear what motivated Hwang Woo-suk, the case has highlighted how the increasingly rapid pace of science, and rising international competition, may be intensifying the temptation to fake results, experts said.See the full content of this document
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Questions of Ethics Stem From Scandal
"There is tremendous pressure today to be first. If you do something first, all the money and fame will come to you," said Adil Shamoo, a biomedical ethicist at the University of Maryland. "All that is an obvious seduction for doing something like this."
Such pressures may be exposing weakness in existing protections, ...See the full content of this document
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