Chinese government gives wrist slap to powerful scientist on fraud and plagiarism charges
In a decision clearing a powerful scientist of charges of fraud and plagiarism in more than sixty papers, several of which have already been retracted, the Chinese government has also allowed that scientist to keep his post as head of one China’s universities.
The Chinese communists did punish him, but in a way that in the long run is mostly meaningless.
Cao [Xuetao, president of Nankai University and an academician at the Chinese Academy of Engineering] will be barred from applying for national science and technology projects, lose his qualification as a scientific expert, and be forbidden from recruiting graduate students, all for 1 year. The notification also ordered him to investigate and correct the papers. It appears he will keep his job as president of Nankai University, one of China’s most prestigious universities. (On Nankai’s English-language website, Cao is also listed as one of the university’s two chancellors.) Cao did not immediately respond to an email requesting comment.
In other words, he keeps his powerful post. To get off so lightly you would almost think he worked for the American FBI and had tried to overthrow a legal election. But then, no, it isn’t the same. The FBI officials who managed the Trump coup have actually seen less punishment. China, as corrupt as its communist government might be, in this case actually managed to administer a tiny bit of justice.
This is the future, as the world’s culture no longer honors law and the truth, but power and authority. And those in power will never be brought to justice, because they are above all those little people who serve them.
This also tells you how little you should trust any results coming from a government scientist. Those results might be real, but before you accept them you better go over them with a fine-tooth comb.
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In a decision clearing a powerful scientist of charges of fraud and plagiarism in more than sixty papers, several of which have already been retracted, the Chinese government has also allowed that scientist to keep his post as head of one China’s universities.
The Chinese communists did punish him, but in a way that in the long run is mostly meaningless.
Cao [Xuetao, president of Nankai University and an academician at the Chinese Academy of Engineering] will be barred from applying for national science and technology projects, lose his qualification as a scientific expert, and be forbidden from recruiting graduate students, all for 1 year. The notification also ordered him to investigate and correct the papers. It appears he will keep his job as president of Nankai University, one of China’s most prestigious universities. (On Nankai’s English-language website, Cao is also listed as one of the university’s two chancellors.) Cao did not immediately respond to an email requesting comment.
In other words, he keeps his powerful post. To get off so lightly you would almost think he worked for the American FBI and had tried to overthrow a legal election. But then, no, it isn’t the same. The FBI officials who managed the Trump coup have actually seen less punishment. China, as corrupt as its communist government might be, in this case actually managed to administer a tiny bit of justice.
This is the future, as the world’s culture no longer honors law and the truth, but power and authority. And those in power will never be brought to justice, because they are above all those little people who serve them.
This also tells you how little you should trust any results coming from a government scientist. Those results might be real, but before you accept them you better go over them with a fine-tooth comb.
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Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. Your support allows me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Only now does it appear that Washington might finally recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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I always enjoy your articles exposing the godless Chicom commies, Robert.
$50 says they read your blog.
And steal your ideas.
And call them their own.
Meanwhile dictatorial control is not absolute even in godless commie China. A tech company in Beijing created a pair of chatbots, named BabyQ and XiaoBing, to have text message-style conversations with humans via the app QQ. They were deleted when they made anti commie responses. Below are some excerpts from the article of the statements that got them killed off.
China destroys sassy bots after they bash communism
https://nypost.com/2017/08/04/china-destroys-sassy-bots-after-they-bash-communism/
Question: “Do you love the Communist Party?”
BabyQ answer: “No”
Question: “Long Live the Communist Party.”
BabyQ answer: “Do you think such corrupt and incapable politics can last a long time?”
Question: BabyQ was asked its thoughts on democracy
BabyQ answer: “Democracy is a must!”
The second robot, XiaoBing, later waxed philosophical about the perks of being an American.
XiaoBing answer: “My Chinese dream is to go to America. The Chinese dream is a daydream and a nightmare.”
Bob: When the State owns everything how can it be plagiarism when they steal someone else’s words or theft when they repossess property and patents? A corrupt moral compass which places CCP leaders in the center of the State’s rights means everything belongs to them. And we have a new age of politician in America that shares these convictions!