英文原题：A specific detail has been ignored in the above article
A specific detail has been ignored in the above article （《方舟子：国内媒体报道不应夸大中国留学生的贡献》http://www.popyard.com/cgi-mod/post.cgi?cate=0&p=1&num=62556&r=0 ）, that is: Dr. Junying Yu was listed as the first author of the research team, and she has been appointed as the person, together with Dr. James A. Thomson, to whom the correspondence should be addressed. According to the tradition of the academic publication in the USA, this arrangement indicates that there is no doubt that Yu is the most important contributor of this research. In this aspect, I don't think that Thomson has any prejudice or discrimination against any members of his research team.
In my opinion, the problem of the USA and PKU overstatement is that their research is indeed neither creative nor being with far-reach significance, even though President Bush even pays attention to it. Because the Japanese scientists in fact have done better research and in earlier time (July 2006-June 2007).
The USA team is just copying the process, even two of four genes in Thomson's team are exactly the same as those in Yamanaka's group, while Yamanaka's group used the facial skin of a 36-year-old woman and from connective tissue from a 69-year-old man, which were far more difficult to program than those from the foreskin of a newborn boy used in Thomson's team.
Reference:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1151526
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