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Past Time for Nature to Retract STAP Cell Pubs, Open up on Review Problems

February 1, 2021 / By / 9 Comments
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Two stem cell papers riddled with errors, with figures that resulted from potential misconduct, with plagiarism, and with other serious problems remain uncorrected and unretracted in the prestigious journal Nature. It is well past time for the journal to editorially retract them. It was about four months ago that Nature published the two astonishing STAP papers reporting the …

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TGIF! Some attempts at humor to release STAP cell stress

February 1, 2021 / By / 4 Comments
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Sometimes a situation is so bad or stressful that it just calls out for some comic relief and the STAP cell mess seems to be one of those. Below are various silly attempts at STAP humor to hopefully release some of that stress. (By the way you might enjoy this 2020 piece on whatever happened to …

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Google Shows Us Crazy STAP Cell Dichotomy

February 1, 2021 / By / 16 Comments
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Sometimes when we Google things we can find out surprising things about specific topics including the whole STAP cell train wreck. When I recently searched for STAP, here was my reaction: What the heck? A recent Google search for STAP cells yielded these two adjacent, completely contradictory results sourced from two Obokata mentors (see image …

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STAP April Update: Super Stressful on All Fronts

February 1, 2021 / By / 14 Comments
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What’s going on with the STAP cell situation now that it is into its third month? It’s getting worse instead of better or clearer, at least in part due to RIKEN’s incomplete investigation. What’s going on with STAP? New RIKEN Press Conference RIKEN reportedly held an odd sort of limited press conference today that TJO …

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Dr. Lee STAP Result, Hyped by Media, in Proper Context

February 1, 2021 / By / 11 Comments
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Yesterday was a crazy day for the STAP cell situation. We had RIKEN releasing a scathing internal investigatory report and then some folks in the media got all worked up about a single PCR assay result that Dr. Ken Lee posted on ResearchGate. Some of the reporters/science writers hyped their headlines/articles on this situation as though …

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RIKEN Report Is Virtual Acid Bath of Criticism for Obokata

February 1, 2021 / By / 35 Comments
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RIKEN Institute in Japan has formally announced the complete findings of its investigation into the STAP cell research,  Haruko Obokata, and Nature papers. RIKEN almost entirely blamed Obokata for the STAP mess in this report and they didn’t mince words. The RIKEN report alleged that Obokata had engaged in two instances of “research misconduct” as …

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STAP Cell Nature Papers: Cases For & Against Retraction

February 1, 2021 / By / 11 Comments
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What next for STAP? Is retraction of the two papers on the near horizon? It has been two months now since Nature published the two papers on STAP cells and STAP stem cells. There has been a storm of controversy surrounding these papers and the claims they made to easily produce the most powerful of …

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Clues as to the real STAP cell scoop: a trio of biosci traps

February 1, 2021 / By / 16 Comments
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I don’t really hear from almost anyone who fully believes in the STAP cell thing anymore. The most common thing I do hear is from people assuming STAP is largely or entirely wrong and asking, “what really happened?” There’s still a chance that STAP is real, but if I were in Vegas or at the …

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