Jonathan Dorfan, a former director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, at Stanford University, and now president of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Japan. He was speaking after a renowned RIKEN stem cell scientist, who co-wrote research that was later retracted in an embarrassing scandal, committed suicide. The RIKEN affair has been watched closely by Japan’s scientific community, which has produced its share of Nobel Prizes but is often viewed as insular and underperforming. (TIME Magazine)
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sensei258
What are the "all this" and the "outcome" mentioned?
some14some
only NATURE (magazine) can understand and explain so to what was un-natural about RIKEN "research" in Japan.
gaijinfo
Total Nobel Prizes Given: 561
Japanese Recipients: 19
some14some
sorry, read well : can understand and explain as to....
Kabukilover
This is cheerleading and nothing else. What happened at RIKEN is a national disgrace. It is natural that scientific research in Japan should be scrutinized at this time.
Pandabelle
Why? If there is a scandal in some other country do you scrutinize all scientific research in that country? Of course not.
Scientific research is always scrutinized. It's the nature of the beast.