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China Now the Most Prolific Contributor To Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Math (bloomberg.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Thirty years ago in December, the modern exchange of scholars between the U.S. and China began. Since then, Chinese academics have become the most prolific global contributors to publications in physical sciences, engineering and math. Recent attempts by the U.S. to curtail academic collaboration are unlikely to change this trend. Qingnan Xie of Nanjing University of Science & Technology and Richard Freeman of Harvard University have studied China's contribution to global scientific output. They document a rapid expansion between 2000 and 2016, as the Chinese share of global publications in physical sciences, engineering and math quadrupled. By 2016, the Chinese share exceeded that of the U.S. Furthermore, the authors argue that these metrics -- which are based on the addresses of the authors -- understate China's impact. The data don't count papers written by Chinese researchers located in other countries with addresses outside China and exclude most papers written in Chinese publications. The researchers adjusted for both factors and conclude that Chinese academics now account for more than one-third of global publications in these scientific fields.
Now, exclude all papers found to be misleading, wrong or outright fake. How big is China's impact on contributing to the sciences now?
Yes, but the US has the best Fortnite players. Who's laughing now?
Cue Alice Cooper's "School's Out"...
When you put lots of money into lots of research by lots of people, this is the result. I should expect that Chinese universities have the same requirements for tenure depending on submitting of published work, result: lots of papers.
From what I have seen so far Chinese papers are universally fraud. I am on peer review lists for a number of papers, and from what I have seen it is mostly junk papers that are coming out of China. Not just language, that can be forgiven/edited, but bad methods, obviously cooked data, blatant plagiarism.
There are four Chinese for every American, five for every two Europeans. All other things being equal, they're going to become the dominant country in everything.
The only country that's going to be close is India (again, all other things being equal).
Lacking a major war, or internal political factors, the Chinese and Indians are going to dominate the world over the next couple centuries, and the USA is going to go the way of the UK - a nation that dominated "back then"....
Note, for the record, that I don't think "all other things being equal" actually applies. I don't think either China or India can liberalize enough to allow their inherent advantages to really take hold. But you never can tell....
"I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
If the USA made them mandatory, then yes.
If only their quality was as high as their quantity.
One common complaint within scholarly circles in recent times is the unusually low quality of published works coming out of China.
China is to academic publishing as India is to computer software development. It seems like every other person there is producing this stuff, but only a very small subset produce something worth paying attention to.
I don't think this factors in what I believe is a higher likelihood for scientific papers originating in China to involve plagiarism and/or fraud.
Yeah, this is what I came in here to say. It seems like all the obviously fake science that's not printed in an Elsevier journal is coming out of China. Is China actually producing more quality research, or just more paper output?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
I know some people recoil at the idea of the advancement of China (for obvious sociopolitical reasons) but the advancement of science is good no matter where it happens. I'm disappointed by the lack of investment in science by my own nation but the advancement of humanity via science is global.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/08/world/asia/china-uighur-muslim-detention-camp.html
As are all communist regimes. State slavery. There is nothing to admire about them.
Corporatism != Free Market
So where's it say that some form of religion is mandated by the state in the US? Right. Canada has a heavier influence of religion on it's state then the US, to the point that Catholics were guaranteed protected rights, including a fully functional and separate education system funded by general revenue taxes. And *is* mandated by the state and constitutional law that it must exist.
Om, nomnomnom...
America's top "mathletes" have won the first place once again this year in the international Math Olympiad.
The team's group picture, however, is as racist as it gets...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
US Elite will work with China at all costs, moral costs. https://newrepublic.com/articl...
I read a lot of cancer research. China's researchers are repeating a lot of western studies done over the previous half century, which I find useful. But it is not original research.
I surmise that China genuinely wants to know more about old answers, from the nuts and bolts to basic veracity, find opportunities (lots of them) and to train a generation of its scientists with an answer guide.
OK, I read TFA. The camps are bad, but they're nowhere near as bad as Hitler's concentration camps. They are not death camps, they're not lifetime imprisonment. They're anti-Muslim "re-education" camps, particularly anti-extreme-Muslim, and apparently there's also some job training going on.
To summarize: it's not Hitler level evil, it's modern communist level evil.
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Perhaps a Christian*, but not a good one, unless you're a Calvinist or a related dogma which believes that you go to heaven no matter what you do just by believing in Jesus, and "accepting him into your heart" whatever that means.
Salvation in the next life in Roman and Eastern Catholic traditions and most Protestant ones is obtained by being a good Christian and that typically would be defined as someone who tries to be like Jesus, you know, help the poor, don't be a dick, etc -- though being divine is rarely included in this of course. ;-)
Plus Christianity has a history of revering martyrdom of true believers and those who died trying to help others either by saving their lives or their souls. It isn't condemned, I guess that's different if your messiah and savour is Ayn Rand though.
*Some of the more extreme ones don't even include you unless you believe and do as they do, but these aren't the mainstream of course.