THE VIDEO SHELF · scientific fraud
The man who faked human cloning
BobbyBroccoli's first of two long documentaries about Hwang Woo-suk, the South Korean scientist who faked human cloning results. It tells the story of the scandal that shook a country.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as a gripping account of scientific fraud and the history of cloning research.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- BobbyBroccoli
- Topic
- scientific fraud
- Format
- documentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2023–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Wars don't just appear out of thin air. There were a lot of incentives for countries to engage in war. Cloning doesn't really benefit anyone and doing cloning requires a ton of funding and grants and ethics boards reviews. If you're interested in the history …
xmprt on Hacker News · 2023-10
In Don't worry about global population collapseBobby Broccoli: [LINK] Documentaries about daring scientific fraud such as "The man who tried to fake an element" [LINK] or "The man who faked human cloning" [VIDEO] Or the epic tale of political intrigue in "The $21,000,000,000 hole in Texas" [LINK] about the The Superconducting …
mbaye on Hacker News · 2023-12
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