ANTI-GLOBALIST EXPATRIATE writes:

It isn’t only Chinese ‘scientists’ who just make stuff up. A Japanese “researcher” has been founded guilty of falsifying date in stem cell research.

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Stephen F. writes:

This may be a case of a comparatively mediocre female scientist succumbing to the pressure to produce something big, because she is a woman. See this article written before the scandal broke.

S. Li writes:

Talking about scientific fraud, nobody can do it better than your dear honorable white people. Read Pharmageddon by David Healy, and you will see how scientists and the pharmaceutical industry of the western nations worked together to falsify data and promote highly harmful drugs to innocent American people and the world. It has been going on like this for decades.

Similar things are going on in the food industry, just watch ‘Food Inc’.

 Also, please just google a few white names below, what they falsified were above and beyond any fraudulent Asian scientists you could ever find. Andrew Wakefield, Roger Poisson and Jan Hendrik Schön…..

All experimental sciences are prone to falsification, and it is mostly common in modern medical research fields. If you do not believe me, just read the blog of Bruce Charlton. If you want to read cleaner science, go for pure mathematical journals please.

Anti-Globalist Expatriate is plain silly. Or maybe I am wrong, are you trying to cater to an audience with DIVERSE intelligence levels?

Anti-Globalist writes:

Academic fraud isn’t confined to one specific culture (the ‘global warming’ née ‘climate change’ nonsense demonstrates that), but it’s especially rampant in Asia. Most of the academic papers published in China are either trivially derivative, plagiarized, completely fraudulent, or some combination of the three. But as long as China is seen as publishing more papers than any other country in the world, the imperative of the Chinese government to be “Number One in research publications” is fulfilled, irrespective of the merits of those “papers.”

A disproportionate amount of the academic fraud occurring in the West is actually committed by Asian expats residing in the West. One has to dig a bit past the headlines to find the names of the perpetrators; all too often, they’re obviously-Asian names.

My point in forwarding along the story about Japan is the misperception by many Westerners that Japan is somehow different from China – that whilst lying, corruption, bribery, fraud, et. al. are rampant in Chinese culture and are in fact its underpinnings, that the Japanese are squeaky-clean and don’t exhibit these traits.

On the contrary, these same characteristics underly Japanese culture, as well; they just tend to hide it better from Westerners.

Anti-Globalist adds:

Note that ‘S. Li’ doesn’t seem to understand what the term ‘falsification’ means in the context of the scientific method.

If a hypothesis isn’t falsifiable, it isn’t subject to experimental investigation – which means that it isn’t addressable in the context of science.

‘Falsification’ in a scientific context is a Good Thing. Propositions which aren’t falsifiable aren’t within the purview of the scientific method (i.e., debates about the existence of God and other metaphysical and philosophical questions).

Because the concepts of absolute truth and objective facts simply aren’t present within Asian culture, it’s unsurprising that ‘S. Li’ doesn’t understand why falsifiable propositions are the underpinning of the scientific method.

William Tychonievichwrites:

Anti-Globalist’s dig at S. Li for supposedly not understanding the meaning of “falsification” is unfair. S. Li used the term in one of its correct senses — “making something false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive.” It should have been clear from the context that he/she did not intend the other sense of “showing or proving something to be false.” The latter is the basis of science, but the former (clearly what S. Li was talking about) is fraud.

Anti-Globalist writes:

‘S. Li’, instead of admitting the undeniable amounts of fraudulent claims made by Asian ‘researchers’, chose instead to engage in trying to imply an equivalence between the vast amounts of scientific fraud engaged in by Asians vs. Westerners. ‘S. Li’ used the word ‘falsification’ in a scientific context, while also making a dig at my intelligence and at the intelligence of the readership of ‘The Thinking Housewife.’

Whether ‘S. Li’ meant to use ‘falsification’ in the scientific context or in a more general context, it was the wrong word to use. So, ‘S. Li’ either committed a conceptual error or a grammatical error while denigrating the intelligence of others.

Pot, kettle, black.

S. Li  writes:

Thanks to William for sharing the common sense!

I was obviously not trying to discuss about Popper’s philosophy on falsifiability and falsification. As to whether I used the word correctly, please check this link.

I was in no way of trying to imply any equivalence between the vast amounts of scientific fraud engaged in by Asians and that of Westerners. I was obviously meaning to say the fraud committed by Westerners is more sophisticated than Asians and has more harms.

Nobody can deny the fact that Westerners run this world at least in the past few centuries. And Westerners did not become the dominating force in this world solely by working hard and playing by the rules as most Asians do. War, exploitation and fraud played important roles in your history of ‘success.’ For any anecdotes Anti-Globalist mentioned that were done by Asians, a simple google research will help you find that some white people had done it in a worse way or at a larger scale. In that sense, I have to admit that we Asians are not as ‘creative’ as you are.

Also, I enjoyed reading this blog and I have a lot of respects for most writers here. Again, I was in no way insulting the intelligence of the readership of this blog here, if you read my sentences carefully.

Laura writes:

Without responding to S. Li’s allegations, I would just like to point out that what his comments demonstrate is that he is loyal to his one race and feels a strong sense of identification with it. This is normal. And it is precisely why mass immigration from Asia so threatens America. It is not normal for a nation to obliterate its own bonds of kinship and race by inviting an overwhelming number of people (a reasonable number is fine) from an alien race to live permanently within its borders.

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