Overlapping Hwang's photos of "two different stem cells"

I found this pic at this news last month. It was originally uploaded on a S.Korean photo fan site in early December 2005, the news says.

The pic above shows how the guy collected the photos used in Hwang's "Science" paper, picked up two of them, adjusted their aspect ratio, and found out that the two photos perfectly overlap.

"The paper says these two photos are of two different stem cells, but it's clear they're duplicated from a single source photo," says the creator of the pic, "I've found three more pairs of photos that overlap just the same way."

These sort of "take-two-and-overlap" games were played not only with Hwang's micrographs, but also with the DNA fingerprint spectra of the "stem cells" in the suspected paper. This eventually provoked scientists in / outside Korea to request Seoul National Univ for inspection on the entire process of Hwang's research.

It seems that so many Korean mass media are still attempting to attribute the disclosure of Hwang's data fabrication to "young Korean scientists" (like those seen in BRIC): if you take a glance at a local newspaper, you'll easily find editorials and columns saying

"Although Hwang's achievements were all found out to be fabrications and Korea's dream of the first Nobel Prize winner in the field of science has ended up in ruins, nevertheless there's a hope left for us, as long as we have these young and excellent scientists."

"We don't need to be so much pessimistic over the future of scientific research in our country: Korean scientists unveiled their colleague's fabrications by themselves, thereby showing us the integrity of our society."

etc, etc...

It is obvious that the disclosure should actually be attributed to so many players of the "take-two-and-overlap" games, like the creator of the above pic. All the "young Korean scientists" did was the advocation of launching the Univ's inspection team.

Well, anyway don't get down too much, Korean friends, you still have a chance to win the world's first "Nobel Photo-Shop prize" or something like that. Sounds splendid, huh? :-p

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