“It’s unnatural for mice to die exactly every 10 days,” writes a group of online whistle blowers about a high-level Japanese research project.
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Either Japanese mice are rather like Mr Bunbury in The Importance of Being Earnest —
My dear Aunt Augusta … The doctors found out that Bunbury could not live … so Bunbury died.
He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians.
— or, um, “the data [was] tampered [with] to suit the theory envisioned by the researchers.”
But that’s just the Japanese way.