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One thing that should not be lost in all this is that Japan produces outstanding science. People in the scientific community here are paying attention to this, and hopefully that will lead to the kind

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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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What are the "all this" and the "outcome" mentioned?

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What are the "all this" and the "outcome" mentioned?

only NATURE (magazine) can understand and explain so to what was un-natural about RIKEN "research" in Japan.

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Japan's scientific community, which has produced its share of Nobel Prizes but is often viewed as insular and underperforming.

Total Nobel Prizes Given: 561

Japanese Recipients: 19

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sorry, read well : can understand and explain as to....

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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.

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It is natural that scientific research in Japan should be scrutinized at this time.

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.

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