Scientific Misconduct - STAP Cells

Here, I discuss a major case of scientific misconduct - STAP. This one is unique in that it is not simply bad data or inappropriate methodologies, but much, much deeper. It takes a lot to nearly topple one of the largest and most respected Biotech institutes in the world, making not only the institute, but the country of Japan and world at large look with a scrutinizing eye, but STAP was the thing to do it. Check out some of the links below:

[purnalingamr]

I wanted a detailed review of this case. Thank you for the video!

[stevebrennan]

Hi Danny,

Just a quick comment to say thank you for this insightful video. I am someone who has no background at all the science you were talking about and I was able to follow your video with no problems at all. Some of the more technical stuff went over my head, but the basic concepts came across fine.

I also have to say, given the amount of scrutiny journal articles undergo by the scientific community as a whole, why would someone think that they could publish false data and get away with it?  Scientific misconduct  honestly boggles my mind more than the science you were talking about.

Thank you once again for your video.

[GreatUncleBuck]

Great stuff. I stumbled across your video in my search for alternative cancer treatments and learned so much from this video.

[watchsymposium]

I just watched the entire video - it was great! I live in Japan, and Obokata was on the news again today. It turns out she wasn't able to reproduce the results, which isn't terribly surprising.

You have to wonder what she was thinking. Did she know it would never work. That is, was it calculated deception.

Again, great video - it was just what I was looking for.

[TheCD]

I really like how you simplified the concept of the papers. I wish you do more of this kind in other papers, like those that are recently part of "reproducibility project", those top-notch cancer biology papers that are labeled irreproducible, but on the other side, I would like to see how you will present your opinion on whether the "reproducibility" process the project has adapted really speak for itself.

[andrewv.]

you should really make it more clear these mouse cells and embryos. great video!

[williammcguinness]

Great Job! Do you think there'll be any ramifications for Nature Mag?

[ellipsys]

RIKEN has denied the existence of STAP cells as invention. But surprisingly it is still under patent process in US since 29th Oct. 2014. The PAIR number is 14/397, 080.

[GradyBaby]

I saw another report on YT that Obakota was working at a bakery shop. Is this true???

[ninikox]

Initially, Japanese research institutes continued to ignore accusations of research misconduct.
However, since this dissertation issue was taken up by pubpeer and spread on the Internet, the research institute reluctantly conducted a survey and led to the withdrawal of the dissertation.

It is not uncommon for Japanese research institutes, not just STAP, to participate in research misconduct.

[GradyBaby]

Did she really graduate from college, (passing grades)?

[KarlWinterling]

It sounds like her doctoral adviser seriously failed to ensure her dissertation was suitable for a final submission. Your adviser normally won't even let you submit a thesis with minor writing errors, much less without any citations for 20 pages. Maybe Obokata believed the STAP cell procedures worked and realized later that it was a mistake, or she thought she could eventually produce STAP cells and fudged the results.

[cperez]

Excellent Job! I hope you upload more science videos like this. Just awful!

[satyanjoy]

thumbs up for your effort - really and boring topic. It will nice if somehow you can squeeze it in make it more of a common man discussion. Thank again for your effort

[kazueshigedo]

The "Riken" RI pronounces like Ritchie RI .Got it!?