Learning from the Era When Science Met Photoshop Toward an Ethical Rhetoric of the Digital Scientific Image
In January 2006, after months of rumors, corrections, accusations, and investigations, the editors ofScienceretracted two papers reporting on embryonic stem-cell research.* The work of the celebrity scientist Hwang Woo Suk had promised to revolutionize the study of stem cells by removing the need to...
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| Published in | Assembling Arguments p. 189 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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University of South Carolina Press
20.01.2016
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| Online Access | Get full text |
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| Summary: | In January 2006, after months of rumors, corrections, accusations, and investigations, the editors ofScienceretracted two papers reporting on embryonic stem-cell research.* The work of the celebrity scientist Hwang Woo Suk had promised to revolutionize the study of stem cells by removing the need to destroy embryos to develop them. Through Hwang’s methods, stem cells could be cloned from a patient’s own cells. Unfortunately, Hwang’s claims were based on fraudulent data presented in fabricated images. One paper offered photographic evidence of eleven distinct stem-cell lines, but nine of these photo sets were complete fabrications—digitally modified versions of just |
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| ISBN: | 1611175615 9781611175615 |