Ooops! Top Chinese scientist speaks of Integrity in Science … but he used fraud in his science!

[So how is the non-white, Jew-driven world doing? How is that super-power China doing? Apparently not as good as you would think when the top scientist is himself a fraud! Jan]

What happens when the fraud czar is accused of fraud?

President of Nankai University Cao Xuetao speaks at Nankai University on Jan. 3, 2018, in Tianjin, China.

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On Nov. 13, 2019, Cao Xuetao, one of China’s most prominent scientists, spoke to his fellow countrymen from the Great Hall of People in Beijing about research integrity. Some 6,000 people were in attendance, and the speech was live-streamed to 800,000 college students across the vast nation, mandatory viewing for most.

The topic was a contentious one. Just a year prior, the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and several other agencies had promulgated a series of punitive measures to be used in cases of scientific misconduct, a sign that the Chinese government was considering the matter seriously. This had come in the wake of numerous scientific scandals in China, such as the retraction of more than 100 papers in 2017 over faked peer review and data manipulation.

Cao is a former president of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, current president of the prestigious Nankai University, leader of several labs and chief research integrity officer for all Chinese research. His accolades are many. But now, Cao’s actions are drawing close scrutiny, as he has been accused of scientific misconduct.

As reported on Nov. 22 in the journal Science, a multitude of Cao’s papers appear to have doctored images. Science sleuth Elisabeth Bik, based in San Francisco, noticed that several images from a 2009 paper, in particular, looked like repeats. Bik has outed many scientists for data manipulation. Cao’s body of work was soon scrutinized; they found examples of charts and images appearing to be repeated and manipulated in dozens of papers, which soon may be retracted.

Cao pledged to look into the matter. As noted, he’s the leader of several labs and has a full-time gig as a university president, and he likely relies on postdoctoral fellows and graduate students to conduct actual research. And they likely want to please the boss with superficially good results. The same would apply to other elite scientists in China, which means the problem of scientific misconduct might be difficult to root out.

Source: https://www.livescience.com/top-retracted-science-studies-2019.html?utm_source=Selligent&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=9160&utm_content=LVS_newsletter+&utm_term=2962140&m_i=40l4WN368dFK1rn%2BvpYGdVTNkt8XvnuKs_cS6VQiW5d3TJn_oQJ_Aa9YBk5yObWkew7rhUUak7B0vdfoiQrny2uu9jrRgrshyjApl0U44I

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