<story><title>Researcher’s death shocks Japan</title><url>http://blogs.nature.com/news/2014/08/researchers-death-shocks-japan.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zeratul</author><text>I think posts like that should be accompanied with some tools that help to deal with grief or suicidal thinking.&lt;p&gt;Here is an online grief support group:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.onlinegriefsupport.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.onlinegriefsupport.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here is a phone number to a grief counseling group for those in US:&lt;p&gt;1-800-260-0094&lt;p&gt;Here is online suicide support group:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/GetHelp/LifelineChat.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org&amp;#x2F;GetHelp&amp;#x2F;LifelineCha...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here is a suicide prevention lifeline for those in US:&lt;p&gt;1-800-273-8255&lt;p&gt;[EDIT: suicide is a very complex disease that is far from being understood. I&amp;#x27;m sure that prof. Yoshiki Sasai had to deal with much, much more than just two retracted articles.]</text></comment>
<story><title>Researcher’s death shocks Japan</title><url>http://blogs.nature.com/news/2014/08/researchers-death-shocks-japan.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>skosuri</author><text>This is such a tragedy.  I think a couple of comments should be made.&lt;p&gt;First, we truly lost a fantastic member of the stem cell community. His lab produced some of the most ambitious and amazing directed differentiation of stem cells into neural tissues including the retina (see an old news story here [1]). Whether or not he was deeply involved in this latest STAP cell controversy is immaterial to the tremendous contributions his lab has made to the field.&lt;p&gt;Second, we should be more careful on how we as a scientific community react to scientific scandal. Michael Eisen (UC Berkeley DevBio Prof, HHMI, Founder of PLoS), who&amp;#x27;s father committed suicide in a similar incident many years ago, had some poignant comments [2].&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nature.com/news/tissue-engineering-the-brainmaker-1.11232&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nature.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;tissue-engineering-the-brainmaker...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1619&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.michaeleisen.org&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;?p=1619&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>