Washington D.C., Jan 10, 2006 / 22:00 pm
On Thursday, a South Korean investigation found that scientist Hwang Woo-suk and his discredited research team had no real evidence to prove their claims that they had cloned human embryos for their stem cells.
Yesterday, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said that the hoax demonstrates that a lack of ethics in the scientific field only produces bad medicine, and bad science.
Richard M. Doerflinger, Deputy Director of the USCCB Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities called the debacle "the most obvious symptom of a field where ethical concerns were dismissed in the pursuit of alleged miracle cures," and said that "good ethics is a necessary and integral part of good science and good medicine."
In a statement released yesterday, Mr. Doerflinger pointed out that “after almost a decade of intense effort by teams around the world, it seems no one has been able to take even the first step needed to derive treatments from human cloning.”