"Quality Matters Most When Stakes are Highest" by LawrenceC
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"Quality Matters Most When Stakes are Highest" by LawrenceC
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One morning when I was nine, my dad called me over to his computer. He wanted to show me this amazing Korean scientist who had managed to clone stem cells, and who was developing treatments to let people with spinal cord injuries – people like my dad – walk again on their own two legs.
I don't remember exactly what he said next, or what I said back. I have a sense that I was excited too, and that I was upset when I learned the United States had banned this kind of research.
Unfortunately, his research didn’t pan out. No such treatment arrived. My dad still walks on crutches.
Years later, I learned that the scientist, Hwang Woo-Suk, had been exposed as a fraud.
In 2004, Hwang published a paper in Science claiming that his team had cloned a human embryo and derived stem cells from it (the first time anyone had done this). A year later, in 2005, he published a second paper claiming that they managed to repeat this feat eleven more times, producing 11 patient-specific stem cell lines for patients with type 1 [...]
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First published:
April 19th, 2026
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GNjDC6jtjr2iiE45i/quality-matters-most-when-stakes-are-highest
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