FLICKR, PLAXCO LABA Taiwanese biomedical researcher who co-authored a Nature paper while at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) may have killed himself last summer, on the day he was due to submit a written response to questions regarding the study's conclusions, reported The Washington Post.
The story centers on Daniel Yuan, formerly a statistician in the genetics lab of Jef Boeke at JHU Medical School, and Yu-yi Lin, then a researcher in the same lab. For years, Yuan had raised concerns about the methodology and results of the lab’s studies on interactions between genes in yeast. To him, the data didn’t always support the conclusions being drawn.
According to the Post, Yuan was first demoted and then dismissed in December 2011. By that time, Yuan already had serious concerns about data presented in a study that was eventually published in Nature in February 2012, and he later wrote to the journal’s editors to express his concerns that results were overstated, and that he had seen no evidence that the analysis ...
