I’m livid, so many more words. This person gives scientists, researchers and educated women a bad name. Sheltered little girls like her are why I stayed out of academia. I thought her takedown was a done deal in April when it was clear her research was faked. There are things you can’t grind your way out of Haruko!!!!!
I’m shocked to hear that she’s only just resigned in December. There are qualified people out there who must jump through hoops to get rejected and there she is lolling about in self satisfied, sanctimonious, blame ducking swank.
She must give really good head to hang on to her job and her PhD for so long. Or, her employers were very careful to investigate before assigning blame. But wait. That’s not right. She’s an adult with a PhD so why are a bunch of men holding her hand?
I bet you when she meets people she leads with “I’m Dr Obokata.” I know the type well. They’re so insecure, they feel they have a right to not be spoken to and they act as though conversing with people with bachelor’s degrees will make them less Holy.
I spent a month in Spring ranting and thundering about this bitch and I don’t want to hear about her anymore. May she simmer in unemployed hell until the End of Days. Then I want to fork her myself. If she gave head to get a position, I’m sure her Professor Sugar Daddies will pick up the slap. Sorry, slack. What will she do now without Prada?
Face palm, out.
TOKYO – The Japanese researcher whose claim of a major breakthrough in stem cell research was discredited resigned after the government lab where she worked failed to replicate her results.
Haruko Obokata said in a statement Friday that she was leaving the Riken Center for Developmental Biology after the lab concluded the stem cells she said she had created probably never existed. The center said it had stopped trying to match Obokata’s results.
“Now, I am just exhausted. For the results to end this way is just perplexing,” she said.
Obokata initially was lauded for leading the research that raised hopes for a discovery of a simple way to grow replacement tissue. But questions about the validity of the research prompted Riken scientists, including Obokata, to retract two scientific papers.
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Thank you for adding this insight. I’ve had papers rejected for not being interesting to editors even when they were based on timely, reliable research.
I opened one of the journals to see an article rambling about unsupported opinions in a single case with NO reference list.
I was horrified but these people employ each other on the basis of age, dialect and country of origin so it makes sense that they would be tentative about research quality.
The Japanese system is notorious in academic circles. It is known that a lot of graduate programs are personality cults where the reward for the men is marriages arranged by their mentors.
I know colleagues who did graduate school just to lock down the husband before going to work. Miss Obokota’s issues are just the tip of the iceberg.
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there’s quite a bit of fraudulent publishing going on. What really strikes me are the journals that print anything without peer review so that scholars can claim to be published, and those who must resort to using them.
One of the big downsides of the information age is the amount of noise that cannot be checked for accuracy.
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Thank you for adding this insight. I’ve had papers rejected for not being interesting to editors even when they were based on timely, reliable research.
I opened one of the journals to see an article rambling about unsupported opinions in a single case with NO reference list.
I was horrified but these people employ each other on the basis of age, dialect and country of origin so it makes sense that they would be tentative about research quality.
The Japanese system is notorious in academic circles. It is known that a lot of graduate programs are personality cults where the reward for the men is marriages arranged by their mentors.
I know colleagues who did graduate school just to lock down the husband before going to work. Miss Obokota’s issues are just the tip of the iceberg.
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