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Making matters of fraud: Sociomaterial technology in the case of Hwang and Schatten (2020)

Park, Buhm Soon (Author)

History of Science
Volume: 58
Issue: 4
Pages: 393-416

URI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0073275320921687

DOI: 10.1177/0073275320921687

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Cell potency Technoscience; science and technology studies Sociology of knowledge Stem cells Scientific misconduct; fraud in science 21st century Korea Hwang Woo-suk

This paper revisits the “Hwang case,” which shook Korean society and the world of stem cell research in 2005 with the fraudulent claim of creating patient-specific embryonic stem cells. My goal is to overcome a human-centered, Korea-oriented narrative, by illustrating how materials can have an integral role in the construction and judgment of fraud. To this end, I pay attention to Woo Suk Hwang’s lab at Seoul National University as a whole, including human and nonhuman agents, that functioned as what I call sociomaterial technology, and Gerald P. Schatten at the University of Pittsburgh, Hwang’s collaborator, who played a crucial role in demonstrating the potency of this technology to the members of the scientific community. By recasting the whole event as the “case of Hwang and Schatten,” I argue that fraud is, like all knowledge claims, a sociotechnical construct, and that matters of fraud are locally judged. Fraud leaves its mark on materials, but I show that material evidence alone never tells the whole story and instead can be used to limit the range of responsibility.

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