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<P>Well Ronda,</P>
<P>but the Internet also enabled Pr Hwang to propagate its falsified documents all over the global scientific community as well as the media, and thus to be known worldwide. This popularity even happened to launch a proposal -notably through the Internet- for giving Hwang the Nobel prize !</P>
<P>A nil-all score ?</P>
<P>Best wishes to you ans all for a happy and successful New Year</P>
<P>Jean-Louis Fullsack<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR></P>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #ff0000 2px solid">> Message du 29/12/05 20:41<BR>> De : "Ronda" <RONDA.NETIZEN@GMAIL.COM><BR>> A : plenary@wsis-cs.org<BR>> Copie à : "ronda hauben" <RONDA.NETIZEN@GMAIL.COM><BR>> Objet : [WSIS CS-Plenary] Netizens expose scientific fraud in South Korea<BR>> <BR>> [Please note that by using 'REPLY', your response goes to the entire list. Kindly use individual addresses for responses intended for specific people]<BR>> <BR>> Click http://wsis.funredes.org/plenary/ to access automatic translation of this message!<BR>> _______________________________________<BR>> <BR>> Hi all<BR>> <BR>> Interesting developments in South Korea show the power of the Internet<BR>> once a society had widespread broadband access.<BR>> <BR>> The online community of scientists have uncovered scientific fraud in<BR>> articles in the US scientific journal "Science" by a leading South<BR>> Korean researcher.<BR>> <BR>> The story in in the news around the world, but in general the news<BR>> account leaves out the fact that the online community of scientists in<BR>> South Korea were responsible for finding the fabrications in the<BR>> articles and then others in the online community helped to spread<BR>> knowledge and an understanding of the nature of the scientific<BR>> fabrications.<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> South Korea leads the world in broadband access and the result has<BR>> been this significant event. Below are two articles that give more of<BR>> the details.<BR>> <BR>> "South Korean 'Netizens of the Year': The online scientific community<BR>> and Internet media challenge old hierarchies"<BR>> <BR>> http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?menu=c10400&no=266352&r<BR>> el_no=1<BR>> <BR>> and<BR>> <BR>> "Korean Cloning Hero Deconstructed Online: Online Scientific Community<BR>> in South Korea Uncovers Fabrication of Data in Acclaimed Stem<BR>> CellResearch Papers"<BR>> <BR>> http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/21/21647/1.html<BR>> <BR>> Best wishes for a good New Year and for a New Year where access to<BR>> the Internet for communication purposes is spread to more and more of<BR>> the world's population.<BR>> <BR>> Ronda<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> --<BR>> Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet<BR>> <BR>> http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook<BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> Plenary mailing list<BR>> Plenary@wsis-cs.org<BR>> http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary<BR>> <BR>> </BLOCKQUOTE>