When the journal, Science, recently retracted two papers by the South Korean researcher Dr. Hwang Woo Suk, it officially confirmed what he had denied for months: Dr. Hwang had fabricated evidence that he had cloned human cells... ''Scientific discoveries are more difficult because they often require in the generalist reporter a good deal of study, follow-up interviews and some guidance on how to make sense of technical matters,'' said Roy Peter Clark, a senior scholar at the Poynter Institute, which studies journalism. ''But I think the scandals do require both a new level of skepticism on the part of the reporter and also maybe some new protocols between scientists and journalists.'' More of this article...Search Google News for more quotes by Roy Peter Clark...
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