Research integrity questions for top academicians

Fascinating blogpost today by Leonid Schneider, on a top Chinese academician and scholar appointed chairman of research integrity in November 2019 … and who now, along with some other less-than-careful top scholars, is getting “a slap on the wrist.”

Leonid Scheider, Research integrity: Communist Party gives Xuetao Cao, Meiyu Geng, Hongliang Li a slap on the wristFor Better Science (January 21, 2021).

It’s based partly on this Twitter thread today from Elizabeth Bik. This is hard science — but, fascinating for all of us, since it reflects the corrupt state of the Chinese academy.

I personally could not resist adding a comment about Chen Quanguo, the Politburo member currently overseeing the genocide in Xinjiang, who in 2019 was outed as having plagiarized much of his own PhD thesis! My 3 notes on MCLC, from 2019:

https://u.osu.edu/mclc/2019/02/21/xinjiang-party-boss-outed-as-phd-plagiarist/
https://u.osu.edu/mclc/2019/03/07/xinjiang-party-boss-outed-as-phd-plagiarist-1/
https://u.osu.edu/mclc/2019/03/18/xinjiang-party-boss-outed-as-phd-plagiarist-2/

Yrs sincerely, Magnus Fiskesjö, nf42@cornell.edu

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