Such jealousy in academic land...
Academics have dug their own grave here. They keep pushing for last century's publishing model and then they use this publishing model to gauge their own academic value.
Call for acid-bath stem-cell paper to be retracted
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Re: Call for acid-bath stem-cell paper to be retracted
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would really love to see proof of this claim.
The funding in Japan flows through a senior researcher who organizes the research for an entire department. This is very different from the US where each PI applies to the funding agency (NSF, NIH...). In 2010 I attended a department level conference (~75 people) in Japan and the the Japanese graduate students explained that when you meet with someone for a few days you get to know them and their research, and then w…
I guess I was more hoping for some old facebook photo of some semi-famous Japanese PI.
Re: Call for acid-bath stem-cell paper to be retracted
#33Here is commentary from the group blog by science journalists Retraction Watch on this story, "Co-author of controversial acid STAP stem cell papers in Nature requests retraction: report": http://retractionwatch.com/2014/03/10/co-author-of-controver... Stem cell research is a "hot" research area, because it can be hyped as a cure-all, so we should all be especially skeptical of initial reports on new stem cell resear…
This isn't correct, consider that the whole scientific community was excited about this paper. And why not? It was published in a good journal and there are a few people trying similar methods.
Could be big if it works, although not sure it is HN content as opposed to some biology community.
Re: Call for acid-bath stem-cell paper to be retracted
#34I'm uncomfortable with the sweeping-generalizations of this comment from the article, but I do think there's some insight to it concerning independent thinking and science. Science is a creative endeavor: Steve Jackman said: "Foreigners have an image of the Japanese as very thorough, detail-oriented, and meticulous. However, my experience in Japan over more than a decade has been just the opposite of this. Things got…
Isn't then the solution to write a manual that tells people precisely how and when to be creative and lays out a protocol for raising issues? One that looks like a very rigid structure, but in fact allows for good creativity.
and some would argue that you place a lot of focus on the artifact (manuels) than on creative thought.