Japan lab weighing retraction of stem cell paper

[wagyl]

Benjamin Fulford is well known to be ... a troubled personage.
(AKA Canadian Journalist once based in Tokyo)

[kurogane]

Some say troubled, others say prescient, incisive, even perspicacious. Many of the people that say that also share his talent for seeing patterns that aren't there and interviewing people they have never met.

I like to call him a batshit whackjob, but that's only because a couple of drinking buddies are big fans of the White Dragon Society. It's an ancient and secret society, you know. Which isn't very secret now that it's on the internet and publicly acknowledging its protection of Herr Fulford. Who knows a lot of secrets, some of which don't even exist yet.

[legion]

Sounds like he's either a super hermit or he is just paranoid about someone beating him to the punch if he follows convention.

or he invented Bitcoin

[matsuki]

Some say troubled, others say prescient, incisive, even perspicacious. Many of the people that say that also share his talent for seeing patterns that aren't there and interviewing people they have never met.

I like to call him a batshit whackjob, but that's only because a couple of drinking buddies are big fans of the White Dragon Society. It's an ancient and secret society, you know. Which isn't very secret now that it's on the internet and publicly acknowledging its protection of Herr Fulford. Who knows a lot of secrets, some of which don't even exist yet.

Is that like Winnetou's Croation Apaches?

[kurogane]

Wel, no, because that was fiction, and this is REAL:

Benjamin Fulford, 10-18-11…”Rothschild family offers White Dragon Society $25 trillion to ‘go away'”

https://kauilapele.wordpress.com/2011/1 ... o-go-away/

I can sort of see why Internet intellectuals get such wood for this guy: it's so simplistic and so fantastic it simply must be true. I might just get a Wagyl on for Benji Boy. In a way he's more fun than "C&J%" because he actually used to have a career and a life, before the meds ran out............and ever since then it's been a straight economy class express ride to Loony Land. His videos with the White Dragons can be a bit of good fun, and I think a few of them actually include that wonky eyed Geino gooby Terry (used to work with Beat Takeshi???), but be warned: there are things that once seen cannot be unseen.

[Takechanpoo]

british "sexist" scientist to flee to okinawa

Sir Tim Hunt, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist forced to resign amid sexism allegations, is reportedly leaving the UK to move to Japan.

He had to quit his honorary professorship at University College London earlier this year following a storm of criticism over his so-called "trouble with girls" speech.

In light-hearted comments meant as a joke, the 72-year-old father of two suggested women cry when criticised and should have separate laboratories.

Sir Tim told the Telegraph he had been "hung out to dry" and was forced to resign, despite an internal inquiry noting the self-deprecating tone in which he delivered the speech.

Now it has emerged that he and his wife, Mary Collins, are planning to leave their home in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, and move to Japan as they hope to put the row behind them.

Professor Collins is leaving her own professorship at UCL to start a five-year job at a Japanese university.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science ... m-row.html

he joined "charisma gaijin circle" as well

[Takechanpoo]

her wife Mary Collins get a post in 沖縄科学技術大学院大学（OIST）
https://www.oist.jp/news-center/news/20 ... joins-oist

[kurogane]

Hehehe. To be fair to Sir Timmy he's not really eligible for Charisma status, but I am sure he will be getting his retirement paid for in full, tax free all expenses paid. Good for them. His joking schtick was ill advised, but he was railroaded.

[legion]

Hehehe. To be fair to Sir Timmy he's not really eligible for Charisma status, but I am sure he will be getting his retirement paid for in full, tax free all expenses paid. Good for them. His joking schtick was ill advised, but he was railroaded.

and the driver of the train has such sterling credentials

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3143945/Lecturer-accused-sexist-Nobel-Prize-professor-keeps-job-despite-Mail-revealing-dubious-claims-career-told-update-CV.html

The questionable professional claims made by Mrs St Louis include that she regularly writes for national newspapers such as the Daily Mail, the Sunday Times and the Independent.
Yet digital archives for these papers stretching back 20 years contain no bylined articles by Mrs St Louis.
Further claims she writes for the Guardian appeared to be limited to two articles – one appearing only after the Sir Tim Hunt affair.
Meanwhile an online CV posted by Mrs St Louis said she had an ‘upper second’ BSc (Hons) in applied biology – although it was not clear where this was awarded.

[kurogane]

Oh, it was a complete mess, to be sure. Astounding she has kept her job, but sadly, not at all surprising. If she would just get herself in a wheelchair or at least claim transability she'd be set for life: an ugly, angry, lying woman of colour forced by the oppressive patriarchy to lie about her qualifications in order to get positions she for which she isn't qualified.

I get he's a physics geek, but having read the transcript :thumbsdown: .............not that it deserved that response after it became clear it was just bad comedy. It sounds like there is something rotten in the faculty boards at UCL. I had the impression he was well liked but perhaps not? And this idea that the first outraged impression frames the subsequent discussoin is goofy. It's as though angry cat ladies admit they can't argue toe to toe so they use bogus claims of being silenced to silenece any objections. I enjoy baiting them on the Interwebz but there needs to be a serious cull in proper public forums: stupid people don't matter and shouldn't be encouraged to think they do.

[Russell]

Hehehe. To be fair to Sir Timmy he's not really eligible for Charisma status, but I am sure he will be getting his retirement paid for in full, tax free all expenses paid. Good for them. His joking schtick was ill advised, but he was railroaded.

and the driver of the train has such sterling credentials

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3143945/Lecturer-accused-sexist-Nobel-Prize-professor-keeps-job-despite-Mail-revealing-dubious-claims-career-told-update-CV.html

The questionable professional claims made by Mrs St Louis include that she regularly writes for national newspapers such as the Daily Mail, the Sunday Times and the Independent.
Yet digital archives for these papers stretching back 20 years contain no bylined articles by Mrs St Louis.
Further claims she writes for the Guardian appeared to be limited to two articles – one appearing only after the Sir Tim Hunt affair.
Meanwhile an online CV posted by Mrs St Louis said she had an ‘upper second’ BSc (Hons) in applied biology – although it was not clear where this was awarded.

The least she could try is to find a job with the Japan Times...

[kurogane]

Perhaps the biggest shock here is that's a woman
http://legalinsurrection.com/2015/06/so ... /#comments



Oook.

[Russell]

I have experienced that type of black woman in the U.K. and the Netherlands who are very much into destroying white males. They must have a load of negative experiences with them, I guess, to make them so frustrated.

[Takechanpoo]

a newly found chemical element to be officially authorized as "Japanium"

http://www.sankei.com/life/news/151226/ ... 05-n2.html
http://www.theguardian.com/science/grrl ... ntrium-113

[matsuki]

Radioactive and fizzles out in an instant....Japanium can only be trumped by Tepconium.

[Coligny]

Retardium was already taken ?

[matsuki]

Retardium was already taken ?

TEPCO is a special kind of special

[Mike Oxlong]

count down to present Shinichi Mochizuki, Kyoto Univ. surely solved ABC conjecture
https://www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk/pers ... t-sch.html

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The math world was shaken to its foundation in 2012 when Shinichi Mochizuki released a 500-page solution to a 27-year-old problem that's stumped the greatest minds in the field for years. Mochizuki may have solved the famous problem, but in the process he created a whole new theory of math. That means anybody who wants to prove Mochizuki's work will have to learn this new theory before they can look at his proposed solution to the so-called ABC conjecture. This conundrum is almost as interesting as the implications of Mochizuki's work, according to a new report published by Nature.

After three years, nobody is close to proving Mochizuki right or wrong, according to Nature. The report noted that just four mathematicians have been able to get through his proof. Mochizuki has not endeared himself to the international math community by lecturing only in Japanese -- despite the fact he speaks English fluently -- while writing some rather scathing updates about his "inter-universal Teichmuller theory." A Clay Mathematics Institute workshop conducted at Oxford University in December will be the first on the IUT theory held outside Japan. Mochizuki will answer questions via Skype.

http://www.ibtimes.com/pulse/shinichi-m ... it-2135190

animation explaining his theory, Inter-universal Teichmüller theory
https://twitter.com/math_jin/status/651638997496655872
https://www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk/pers ... anima.html

Hope Rekindled for Perplexing Proof
Three years ago, a solitary mathematician released an impenetrable proof of the famous abc conjecture.
At a recent conference dedicated to the work, optimism mixed with bafflement

Earlier this month the math world turned toward the University of Oxford, looking for signs of progress on a mystery that has gripped the community for three years.

The occasion was a conference on the work of Shinichi Mochizuki, a brilliant mathematician at Kyoto University who in August 2012 released four papers that were both difficult to understand and impossible to ignore. He called the work “inter-universal Teichmüller theory” (IUT theory) and explained that the papers contained a proof of the abc conjecture, one of the most spectacular unsolved problems in number theory.

Within days it was clear that Mochizuki’s potential proof presented a virtually unprecedented challenge to the mathematical community. Mochizuki had developed IUT theory over a period of nearly 20 years, working in isolation. As a mathematician with a track record of solving hard problems and a reputation for careful attention to detail, he had to be taken seriously. Yet his papers were nearly impossible to read. The papers, which ran to more than 500 pages, were written in a novel formalism and contained many new terms and definitions. Compounding the difficulty, Mochizuki turned down all invitations to lecture on his work outside of Japan. Most mathematicians who attempted to read the papers got nowhere and soon abandoned the effort.

For three years, the theory languished. Finally, this year, during the week of December 7, some of the most prominent mathematicians in the world gathered at the Clay Mathematical Institute at Oxford in the most significant attempt thus far to make sense of what Mochizuki had done. Minhyong Kim, a mathematician at Oxford and one of the three organizers of the conference, explains that the attention was overdue.

“People are getting impatient, including me, including [Mochizuki], and it feels like certain people in the mathematical community have a responsibility to do something about this,” Kim said. “We do owe it to ourselves and, personally as a friend, I feel like I owe it to Mochizuki as well.”

The conference featured three days of preliminary lectures and two days of talks on IUT theory, including a culminating lecture on the fourth paper, where the proof of abc is said to arise. Few entered the week expecting to leave with a complete understanding of Mochizuki’s work or a clear verdict on the proof. What they did hope to achieve was a sense of the strength of Mochizuki’s work. They wanted to be convinced that the proof contains powerful new ideas that would reward further exploration.

For the first three days, those hopes only grew...

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20151221 ... abc-proof/

[Wage Slave]

Yet his papers were nearly impossible to read. The papers, which ran to more than 500 pages, were written in a novel formalism and contained many new terms and definitions.

I did some work with someone who does exactly this. I had to give it up in the end as it was just too exhausting hammering any sense into it.To this day I have no idea whether the work said absolutely nothing over the bleeding obvious in a convoluted and elaborated way or was new and powerful insight.

[kurogane]

I like this Mochizuki guy more and more. He probably doesn't need to be quite so contrary, and it probably detracts from the science, but it is fun to see somebody flip the finger to the assembled High Priests of Flobbadob. As Take said, he's at KU, and a mathematician. He's probably as much fun as a root canal, but it is fun to watch.

WS,
Our standard was to ask whether the purveyor of the Radical New could convey the ideas in alternate terms. If not, the chances are it's just Oddle Poddle, even if they sincerely do not recognise that. My favourite example is the principle of Acephalic Differential Segmentary Opposition in kinship studies. Dead easy stuff cloaked in the finest obfuscation has to offer.

[wagyl]

WS,
Our standard was to ask whether the purveyor of the Radical New could convey the ideas in alternate terms. If not, the chances are it's just Oddle Poddle, even if they sincerely do not recognise that. My favourite example is the principle of Acephalic Differential Segmentary Opposition in kinship studies. Dead easy stuff cloaked in the finest obfuscation has to offer.

Ahh! I see you used the nativist ploy! An excellent choice.

[kurogane]

Either Great Minds Think Alike, or..............

I even have a clever ditty that explains it. And it is that which is mine.

[Taro Toporific]

Ex-researcher Obokata to publish gravure book on STAP cell scandal
January 27, 2016 (Mainichi Japan)
Haruko Obokata, the former stem cell scientist dogged by a scandal surrounding her alleged falsification of research papers, will publish a book recounting the controversy that unfolded from early 2014, publisher Kodansha Ltd. said Wednesday.
More...

Obokata.jpg

[matsuki]

LOL, cash grab?

In the words of one of my Chinese friends...."WTF is up with those alien looking J-girls getting this overrated attention?"

[kurogane]

That's the only update I cared about. Who called it first, btw? Major Dibs! points there. I'll wait for her to graduate to a Tokyo Hot or Dreamroom "No Holes Barred, All Holes Filled" production before I get interested. I bet she graduates to at least soft style full porn like that tuber tittied Kaho Shibuya (the ex sports "reporter"), or the exquisite Suzu Takachiho.

[matsuki]

like that tuber tittied Kaho Shibuya (the ex sports "reporter"), or the exquisite Suzu Takachiho.

Those tittays!!!

[legion]

I'm going to take a wild guess that in none of the 253 pages she will admit to any wrong doing.

Nor will we see her stap cells.

[Russell]

I'm going to take a wild guess that in none of the 253 pages she will admit to any wrong doing.

Nor will we see her stap cells.

But Taro photoshopped her pic more masterfully than she did those so-called STAP cell pics in her papers...

[matsuki]

I'm going to take a wild guess that in none of the 253 pages she will admit to any wrong doing.

Nor will we see her stap cells.

Who the hell is going to buy that shit anyway?

[kurogane]

Those tittays!!!

Have you seen the movies (lame as they are)? I like her in some push up kit or at least a tank top and I do love a pretty pocket rocket with a nice fat pooch but that much yoko yure is not my thing. Way too tubey. If those are natural she could cut them down by half and be stunning. Too each his own, of course.

Anyways, to answer your last question: the same type that bought Rie Miyazawa's "Art" poses, but I am waiting for her to graduate to the level she deserves: airtight, and preferably Tokyo Hot, because they don't airbrush it