Public feeling for science: The Hwang affair and Hwang supporters
Public feeling for science: The Hwang affair and Hwang supporters
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公众对科学的感情：黄氏事件和黄氏支持者
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2009
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Jongyoung Kim
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Jongyoung Kim
本民族志调查了黄禹锡事件如何发生、黄禹锡博士如何吸引支持者以及支持黄禹锡的团体如何演变。这项研究并没有将黄禹锡的支持者解释为有心理问题的异常人，而是将他们置于具体、混乱和模糊的背景中，让他们难以理解黄禹锡事件。他们对科学权威和官方机构不信任，将韩国民族主义与干细胞研究的希望和梦想联系起来，编造阴谋论来解释黄禹锡的倒台，并批评韩国精英。本文特别强调了黄教授的支持者是出于对出身卑微的韩国科学家（黄博士）的钦佩、通过干细胞研究治愈疾病的希望以及通过科学建设先进国家的愿望。在描述这个过程时，我关注公众对科学的感情是如何产生的，以及它是如何在政府、媒体和黄黄教支持者组织之间的互动中演变的。此外，我认为制度无能加深了公众的不信任，从而助长了黄教支持者的形成和活动。
This ethnography investigates how the Hwang affair occurred, how Dr. Woo Suk Hwang attracted supporters, and how groups supporting Hwang evolved. Instead of interpreting Hwang supporters as abnormal people with psychological problems, this study situates them in concrete, messy, and ambiguous contexts in which they struggle to understand the Hwang affair. Distrustful of scientific authorities and official institutions, they have linked Korean nationalism with the hopes and dreams of stem cell research, created conspiracy theories to explain Hwang’s fall, and criticized Korean elites. In particular, this paper emphasizes how Hwang supporters are motivated by admiration of a Korean scientist with humble beginnings (Dr. Hwang), the hope of curing disease through stem cell research, and the desire to build an advanced nation through science. In describing this process, I pay attention to how public feeling for science is produced and how it has evolved in the interactions among government, media, and the Hwang supporters’ organizations. In addition, I argue that institutional incompetence deepens public distrust and as a result fuels the formation and activities of Hwang supporters.