Who is the pusher?

Liao xinbo, inspector of the guangdong provincial health and family planning commission

The life times (2000/02)

On April 21, Germany springer journal publishing group, the tumor biology, down 107 Chinese academic papers, most of the authors from the university affiliated hospital, even the famous hospital. This is the second time the magazine has retracted the paper since it removed 25 Chinese scholars in 2015.

In the event of this, the public outcry is that the investigation and the negotiation have been launched at the same time. The investigation found that the fraud was almost all made by so-called "third party organisations". These institutions do not conduct peer-reviewed or falsified peer-reviewed papers, and recommend them to the journal. To this, the China association for science and technology that was removed from paper, the author and the third party intermediary exists unshirkable responsibility, but since 2015, from draft, publishing group, did not take effective measures to prevent similar incidents, some problems such as audit lax, should bear the responsibility.

The incident is still unfolding, and it is a reminder of academic fraud, no matter who it is. The magazine is just the tip of the iceberg, and if you push it out and open it up, you can't imagine it.

In fact, there is a long history of academic fraud, but it is actually getting worse. In the past, our country have been drug counterfeiting events, such as the third affiliated hospital of zhongshan university bright bacterium element events, intentionally fraud is a pharmaceutical factory, hospital bought a counterfeit drugs as a result, patients died. The dangers of cheating on paper are as great as drug fraud, but the dangers may be hidden. Because other peers may conduct similar clinical practices based on falsified research results, and even start new research on the basis of this.

In the end, the author of the thesis must be the author himself, and why should he cheat? In our country, many clinicians are forced to "make" papers due to the need for promotion and personal development. Because there is no paper, no title, no SCI (science citation index "by the United States in the journal published by the papers), there is no senior titles, to maintain high-level title must constantly" manufacturing ", a senior thesis. To complete an essay, however, is not an easy thing, not all doctors can be completed, especially a high quality of SCI paper, need time, effort, and learning to complete. Thus, the academic fraud was born, and the "third party mechanism" that helped to fake it was born, and the phenomenon of the production and marketing of the paper was born.

In my opinion, today's paper in China is not an academic paper in the past. Today China's SCI is not a respected SCI thesis. From dusty magazines and unsearchable articles, the mountain of paper is a pile of waste paper.

MAO zedong said, the problem of knowledge is a matter of science, and no dishonesty or conceit whatsoever is permissible pride, the needs of the decision is definitely the reverse -- honesty and modesty. Therefore, it is time to deeply reflect on the roots. How to concoct a cure for fraud is a top priority.

The root of the problem lies in the job title. As many clinicians are Shouting, China's job title is a tool for killing people, a tool to kill creativity, and a tool for "forced sex." The mechanism for linking papers and titles should be determined to abolish, or at least radical, reform. At the same time, the institutional environment that forms the disgraceful and fakery is also the foundation of governance.