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Journal Published Flawed Stem Cell Papers Despite Serious Misgivings About Work
sciencehabit writes: As two discredited, and now retracted, stem cell papers have produced an almost unimaginable fallout — a national hero accused of scientific fraud, the revamping of one of Japan's major research institutes, and the suicide of a respected cell biologist — researchers have privately and publicly asked how Nature could have published work that, in retrospect, seems so obviously flawed. Another piece of the puzzle has now come to light. The Science news team received a copy of email correspondence between a Nature editor and Haruko Obokata, the lead author of the papers, which indicates the work initially received as rocky a reception there as at two other journals, Cell and Science, that had rejected the work previously. The email, dated 4 April 2013, includes detailed separate criticisms of the two papers and suggestions for new data to support the authors' claims of a simple and novel way to make stem cells that could form the myriad cell types within a body. The Nature editor rejected the papers, but left open a window, writing, "Should further experimental data allow you to address these criticisms, we would be happy to look at a revised manuscript." The two papers were published 10 months later.
increases their control over education and the medical cartel in this country, expect more of this to happen. They don't care about science. They only care about profits, so publishing garbage is going to happen more often because you can't make a profit on an unpublished paper. Also, this intentionally misleading the public can be very profitable. Just look at how Bush hurt hog farmers with his lies about salt and blood pressure. That was when he ruled the CIA in the late 70s.
And the CONservatives that rule ths site are again spouting their lies:
"You failed to confirm you are a human. Please double-check the image and make sure you typed in what it says."
Fuck you for calling me not human because I'm black. I know you hate me and want me to die, but cstating in writing what Nazis