Love love this.

Many of the results may have been false positives or false negatives due to poor experimental design and that lead to their irreproducibility. That is not always the case though, in 2004 a Korean researcher Hwang Woo-suk claimed to have generated human embryonic stem cell lines from human eggs which were never fertilized (no fertilization, no embryo, no embryo…significantly less controversy). Hwang and his colleagues actually published two papers on the subject, one detailing their initial finding and a second paper reporting improved efficiency. Scientists quickly drew the results into question and by 2005 the author admitted to faking the data and the papers were retracted.

There is also another famous scandal in Japan. A lot of drama in there. The researcher got her phd revoked. her supervisor committed suicide. Pressure for biologists to be first, maybe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruko_Obokata