Just when you thought Todai is the coolest of the cool, the highest of the high, and the most righteous of the righteous in Japanese education, this news will turn up. As it turns out, a team of medical researchers conducted studies on specimens taken from unknowing patients and lied about it on a published medical journals claiming they had consent from the “donors.” Tell me, what else would you expect from the lavishly-funded thinkers of Japan who are given more than enough time to think things over. Well, maybe they just got a bit overexcited with their crusade to save the world. It’s sometimes easy to commit such mistakes - easy to forget that it’s not only our intent that counts in the overall judgement of our actions, the means in which we carry out our intents matters too. This kind of things makes me want to watch Extreme Measures again, and hear Hugh Grant retort, “…Maybe they are doing a great thing for the world. Maybe they are heroes. But they didn’t choose to be. You chose for them. And you can’t do that, because you’re a doctor, and you took an oath…“