Plan to Blow the Whistle on Scientific Misconduct? Better Wear Kevlar

The Los Angeles Times ran a brilliant piece about what has happened to those who revealed the fraud in the Hwang Woo-suk case. The message is simple - whistleblowers are toast - but the cases are extraordinary and in some ways are going to turn out to be the most interesting and problematic piece of the Hwang scandal for those in other nations hoping to learn from South Korea.