[tw1984]

> When i said western labs, i spiritually include japan, taiwan, south korean labs in that, since they generally have similar practices and rigor

Are you implying that the west is as corrupted as Japan? That is not something I can agree with.

In case you got yourself isolated from daily news for too long, below is just some recent news regarding those common practices in japanese labs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_scientific_misconduct...

most japanese major groups are falsifying their various type of data - just look at recent news since 2015

Hitachi admitted falsifying data on brake testing https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14508789

More fraudulent testing found in Mitsubishi Electric https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14630514

Accounting fraud by Toshiba https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Toshiba-s-chairma...

Kobe Steel admits data fraud went on nearly five decades https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kobe-steel-scandal-ceo/ko...

[ironborn123]

Lets not drag Japan into this. They have very high standards in research despite the few examples you gave here, some of which are not even science related.

As a widely accepted measure of this, you can read about the many nobel laureates from japan.

Anyways lets keep politics out of the discussion. It was not my intent anyway, in case you perceived it that way.