SEOUL (Reuters) - Disgraced scientist Hwang Woo-suk cannot leave South Korea because of a criminal probe, is facing an intensified investigation and will never publish a paper in a major journal again, experts and officials said on Friday.
Yet on Thursday, Hwang was defiant in saying he could reproduce the findings in two landmark papers that had been debunked because they were based on intentionally fabricated data. Hwang hinted that a conspiracy was out to undermine him.
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