#research data

I don't think it was an accident (since accidents in mysteries rarely are what they're framed to be), but I'm not sure whether they commited suicide or whether they were killed as someone (like Vermouth) was trying to destroy all the research data.

If it's the former, then either a witness or Elena (through the recorded tape) is gonna have to reveal their suicide plan (maybe during Shiho's 19th birthday).

If it's the latter, then there will have to be a resolution with that person (i.e Vermouth), where we get the lab fire incident flashback through their perspective.

The disappearance of information caught animal welfare groups by surprise. “I'm just flabbergasted,” says Eric Kleiman, a research consultant at the Animal Welfare Institute, an advocacy group in Washington DC. “This is not only the opposite of transparency, it takes us back to the Stone Age.”

But Matthew Bailey, president of the non-profit Foundation for Biomedical Research in Washington DC,  says the move has some merit, because animal rights activists sometimes target scientists who use animals. “I would certainly agree that protection of personal information is of utmost importance, given the rich history of targeting individuals involved in animal research,” he says. But Bailey acknowledges that it will now be difficult for organizations like his to analyse trends in animal use in research.

Espinosa declined to answer questions about what triggered the decision, or whether input from business interests, such as the circus industry, or the 20 January resignation of agency head Michael Scuse were factors. She would not comment on whether the White House had a role in the move, but added that the USDA has “been reviewing and updating the information that is released to the public for the last year”.

“In this photo, I’m inspecting the data-acquisition system installed at one of the five soil plots at the Siikaneva fen, a remote peatland located about 60 kilometres north of Tampere, in southern Finland. Fens, a kind of peatland fed by groundwater, cover nearly half of the total global peatland area and are important to study because fen ecosystems have the highest methane emissions among…

Russell Funk had no idea how much his work would strike a nerve. But then came a blizzard of news stories and supportive e-mails from hundreds of scientists — along with a critical backlash. Funk and his co-authors argued that scientific papers and patents had become less disruptive over time, by which they meant that fresh work was less likely to make previous articles obsolete. When they…