as my dear lobbyist said, working in academic research prepared hear for politician backstab...
if it finally works, i would call for prison, one more. the entrepreneur forgive, not the citizen 2014-08-06 22:30 GMT+02:00 Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com>: > That's my take. The mainstream press calls it "fraud" without a scrap of > evidence as far as I know. See: > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/business/Yoshiki-Sasai-an-author-of-discredited-stem-cell-study-is-found-dead.html > > "Why do Scientists Commit Fraud" > > > http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/08/fraud_in_stem_cell_research_japanese_biologist_yoshiki_sasai_commits_suicide.html > > > Here is what I wrote in the comment section: > > The accusations against Obokata are outrageous. Yes, there is some > evidence she was sloppy, but there is absolute NO evidence she made a > mistake or committed fraud. Her co-authors still support her. Sasaki left a > message to her saying "I hope you can replicate." He still believed the > results. > > I saw the NHK talk show "experts" attacking Obokata. They were ruthless. > NHK's own tone was simply outrageous. They made everything look suspicious. > They assumed fraud had been committed. They did the same thing in many > previous "academic scandals" which were not a bit scandalous. > > These academic bullies have blood on their hands. If Obokata turns out to > be right after all it will be all the more outrageous. > > I have edited and translated from Japanese hundreds of scientific papers. > I have seen much sloppier ones. > . . . > > Here is an example of NHK's previous shenanigans. Some researchers I know > invited the NHK reporter to a funding meeting during a conference, at a > restaurant. The reporter said he was busy. He and a film crew then secreted > themselves near the meeting and took shaky, hand-held camera long distance > shots of the professors and industry people going into the meeting. They > broadcast this with the voice over claiming "here are researchers meeting > with industry experts, preparing to shake down the government for funding." > They made it look like a scandal. > > That was for cold fusion, which NHK, Nature and others despise. They are > forever trying to make it look like a scandal, when all it is nothing more > than peer-reviewed, mainstream conventional science published in boring > journal papers. Hundreds and hundreds of boring papers. Believe me, I have > read 3,000 of them and they are boring. Not scandalous. > > > - Jed > >
