title: [The amazing story of the fraudulent cloned embryos and what it tells us about science, technology, and the media].
abstract: Based on news reports from Brazilian papers, the article examines the case of scientific fraud involving cloned embryos, committed by South Korean scientist Hwang. The media generally focus on the intellectual process of science, its discoveries, and the new possibilities it promises. In this case, however, science is shown the other way around, revealing a web that interweaves elements of a radically disparate nature, like the Korean government, researchers, tools, research funds, human eggs and funguses, scientific journals, among others. These ties are what make up science in practice, yet they only become visible in the media when there is tension between them and, in this case, when something illicit happens.
authors: Programas de Pós-graduação em Ciências Sociais, Departamento de Sociologia, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, BA, Brasil, 40210-650, imas@ufba.br.
authors: Iara Maria de Almeida
authors: IM
authors: Souza
authors: Amanda Muniz Logeto
authors: AM
authors: Caitité