For Bogus Science, Don't Forget to Blame the Media

Writing at Slate, Jane C. Hu uses the high-profile stem-cell research lies we have seen in recent years to launch into an interesting article, "Why Do Scientists Commit Fraud?" She discusses the bogus claim that skin cells could be turned into stem cells with chemicals (not the same thing as the actual breakthrough of induced pluripotent stem cells).

She describes cases I have also written about, such as the Hwang Woo-suk cloning fraud of several years ago and other bogus stem-cell studies. Sh...