Japanese researcher's death highlights problems in dealing with scientific misconduct
Thursday, August 7, 2014 - 06:30
in Biology & Nature
In 1987, my father, a scientist at the US National Institute of Health, killed himself after a member of his lab committed scientific fraud and he got caught up in the investigation. So I found the news that Yoshiki Sasai, a Japanese stem-cell scientist, had allegedly committed suicide in the wake of the STAP controversy deeply disturbing.