1. The name they give is the director of UNESCO, not a research scientist.
2. Human feces would be a very poor source of protein. By mass, shit is mainly water, fibre, bile salts (where the brown colour comes from) and bacteria.
3. Why would a japanese research scientist have "shit burger" in English on his refrigerator?
I see yahoo news and a lot of blogs have picked up on this one too. Amazing how easy it is to broadcast total shit around the Internet.