This paper revisits the “Hwang case,” which shook Korean society and the world of stem cell research in 2005 with the fraudulent claim of creating patient-specific embryonic stem cells. My goal is to overcome a human-centered, Korea-oriented narrative, by illustrating how materials can have an integral role in the construction and judgment of fraud. To this end, I pay attention to Woo Suk Hwang’s lab at Seoul National University as a whole, including human and nonhuman agents, that functioned as what I call sociomaterial technology, and Gerald P. Schatten at the University of Pittsburgh, Hwang’s collaborator, who played a crucial role in demonstrating the potency of this technology to the members of the scientific community. By recasting the whole event as the “case of Hwang and Schatten,” I argue that fraud is, like all knowledge claims, a sociotechnical construct, and that matters of fraud are locally judged. Fraud leaves its mark on materials, but I show that material evidence alone never tells the whole story and instead can be used to limit the range of responsibility.

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制造欺诈问题：Hwang 和 Schatten 案中的社会材料技术

本文回顾了“黄氏案”，该案在 2005 年以制造患者特异性胚胎干细胞的虚假声明震惊了韩国社会和干细胞研究界。我的目标是通过说明材料如何在欺诈的构建和判断中发挥不可或缺的作用来克服以人为本、以韩国为导向的叙述。为此，我关注整个首尔国立大学 Woo Suk Hwang 的实验室，包括人类和非人类代理，它们起到我所谓的社会材料技术的作用，以及 Hwang 的合作者匹兹堡大学的 Gerald P. Schatten在向科学界成员展示这项技术的潜力方面发挥了至关重要的作用。通过将整个事件重铸为“黄和沙腾案”，我认为欺诈与所有知识主张一样，一个社会技术结构，欺诈问题由当地判断。欺诈会在材料上留下痕迹，但我表明，仅凭物证无法说明全部情况，相反可以用来限制责任范围。