SEOUL, South Korea -- Prosecutors indicted disgraced cloning scientist Hwang
Woosuk Friday on fraud and bioethics law violations linked to faked stem cell
research, officials said.
Five members of Hwang's research team were indicted on the same charges,
prosecution official Lee In-kyu said in a nationally televised news conference.
He said none of the six would be detained, but did not elaborate.
Hwang was hailed worldwide as a stem cell pioneer and treated as a national
hero until investigations late last year showed that he had fabricated key data
in two papers he published in the journal Science in 2004 and 2005.
The scientist had claimed that he created the world's first cloned human
embryos and extracted stem cells from them. Those claims had offered hope of new
treatments for millions of patients suffering from paralysis and debilitating
diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
The journal has since retracted both articles.
He made a public apology but was later fired from his post as a professor at
Seoul National University's veterinary department and the government conducted a
probe into his finances.
Auditors said in February that it was unclear how Hwang spent $2.6 million he
received in government funds and private donations.
Through last year, Hwang received $33 million in government funds for his
research as well as $6.4 million in private donations, the audit board said.
Hwang acknowledged publicly that he inflated data, but accused other
researchers of deceiving him with falsified research results.
Hwang maintains he has the technology to do what he claimed. But South
Korea's Health Ministry withdrew his research license, preventing him from
cloning human embryos or receiving eggs for such work.
1.From what sources did police find Hwang Woo-suk was guilty of academic fraud?
A. Counterfeit data in the thesis he published
B. Anonymous report to police
C. Newspaper of his university
D. The application of his search results
2.Why did Koreans treat Hwang Woo-suk as a hero?
A. Because he has been conducting the research in cloning technology.
B. Because he has made remarkable achievement in the study of stem cell.
C. Because he was the first scientist who cloned animal embryo in the world.
D. Because he was the most famous biological scientist in Korea.
3. What hope can patients expect if Hwang’s research was proved real and applied to
practice?
A. People may have healthy and smart offspring.
B. Treatments to Alzheimer's would be effective.
C. Paralysis and debilitating diseases sufferers would be doomed to recover.
D. New treatments to paralysis and debilitating diseases may be found.
4. Which of the following charges was NOT given to Hwang Woo-suk?
A. Data counterfeit.
B. Unrestrictedly use of the government funds
C. Deceiving and misleading the public.
D. Proved his innocence by accusing others.
5. We can infer from this passage that________.
A. Korean is a self-esteem nation.
B. scientist should obey his professional ethics and moral.
C. cloning is a difficult project.
D. we should not respect scientist no more.
参考答案：
1.A 2.B 3.D 4.D 5.B
