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China's Research Ambitions Hurt By Faked Results
Hugh Pickens writes "AP reports that plagiarizing or faking results is so rampant in Chinese academia that some experts worry it could hinder China's efforts to become a leader in science. China's state-run media recently rejoiced over reports that China publishes more papers in international journals than any other country except the US; but not all the research stands up to scrutiny. In December, a British journal retracted 70 papers from a Chinese university, all by the same two lead scientists, saying the work had been fabricated, and expressing amazement that a fake crystal structure would be submitted for publication. 'Academic fraud, misconduct and ethical violations are very common in China,' said professor Rao Yi, dean of the life sciences school at Peking University. 'It is a big problem.' Last month the Education Ministry released guidelines for forming a 35-member watchdog committee and has asked universities to get tough but Rao remains skeptical. Government ministries are happy to fund research but not to police it, Rao says. 'The authorities don't want to be the bad guy.'"
One problem: people in Africa don't tend to work as hard as people from the Far East, making it cheaper to keep it there.
Western culture has morals and ethics. Chinese are heartless and greedy.
You are one person out side of a population of over 1,330,044,605 people. And you know how it works? Nice to see your post is just another bullshit Chinese "paper", that is peer reviewed buy no one and has no actual data before you publish it. This "fact" about Chinese is the same as the fake crystals published. Not a fact, not a real paper at all. Just another waste of time. No scholar would use the term "They" to define a group.You use they so much with out reference to any article, study or actual event. That's racist! I don't care if you hate your own people but you may want to look into that. Try using what educated people called names. Like " Chinese students, as shown in this article buy the Australian herald etc." Or you are talking about all the Chinese including you and the guy who works at the bank and the guy who teaches baseball. You really do make me sick. There was a Chinese national on a bus in my city who attacked and ate some guy. So I guess the bad thing about Chinese people is that "THEY" eat people!
I disagree about the phenomenon being "purely social due to communist ruling"; the Chinese have a more than 1000 year old reputation of being shady and dishonest in trade.