Any benefits and honors obtained by plagiarism, plagiarism, or fraud are improper, and are also unfair to other peers
Recently, the official website of the National Natural Science Foundation of China issued the "Notice on the Handling Results of the Case Investigation and Dealing with Misconduct in 2022 (Third Batch)". According to China Youth Daily , the above case involves 52 scholars from universities and research institutions such as Peking University , Fudan University , Shanghai Jiaotong University , Dalian Medical University and other universities and research institutions. Among them, 32 scholars had the problem of plagiarizing or plagiarizing project applications, and were punished by canceling and participating in the application for the National Natural Science Foundation project for 3-5 years, revoking approved projects, recovering funds, and reporting criticism.
According to Pengpai News , many doctors from the affiliated hospitals of Xi'an Jiaotong University were involved in the papers published by Shan Tao, including the problems of forgery and tampering with research data, Cai Yuanzhen and Zhang Guofeng's National Natural Science Foundation project application have plagiarism, and Li Xiaoyan's National Natural Science Foundation project application has plagiarism. In addition, it also involved academic misconduct from several professors and doctoral students at Dalian Medical University, and many people were criticized.
You should see that in addition to the appropriate measures for revocation, cancellation, recovery, etc., public notice is also a necessary punishment. Through this form, it can not only make the parties involved blush and sweat, but also play a certain warning role, but also form a "list effect" in the academic community: in the future, these people with academic stains will probably no longer be popular everywhere and will be green all the way. Invisibly, a kind of pressure will be transmitted that makes some people afraid of academic misconduct.
It can be seen from the names of the relevant projects involved in the above notice that many of the people involved this time are from the medical field. According to statistics, from June to December 29, 2021, the National Health Commission website reported more than 300 medical research integrity cases, involving nearly 150 hospitals.
can be seen that some places involve academic fraud, not one or two cases. This is related to the incomplete self-management of the unit involved and the lack of dedication to the effort. Whether the unit involved has problems with the academic ecology is worth paying attention to. If fraudulent behavior is not effectively supervised and stopped, this mentality may continue to grow in comparison. These academic works and project applications are related to professional titles, performance, and benefits in many units.
Previously had a problem with the author of the paper: "As a junior among countless doctors, I was disdainful of (for fraud) back then. But if I can't twist my arms and have no paper, I'm destined to be unable to get promoted to a professional title. If I can't get a professional title, it's difficult to support my family." Perhaps it is precisely because it is not only a matter of "fame" but also a matter of "profit" for the parties involved, that I have the motivation to take risks.
Some netizens said, "The main responsibility of a doctor on the front line of clinical practice should be to treat diseases and save people, and should not overemphasize papers, topics, and results." "Is this management model of issuing indicators to the papers of in-service people reasonable?"... These questions and opinions actually touch on an old question: how to formulate a more scientific and reasonable assessment and assessment system. Not only in the medical field, but also in many scientific research and education fields, there are similar problems. Just like the doctor's duty is to treat diseases and save lives, the teacher's duty is also to educate students. It is still necessary to distinguish between academic research positions and business practice positions, and then formulate a matching assessment and promotion system.
But in the end, these are not reasons for academic fraud, and they should be unified by one code. Academic fraud is an insurmountable basic bottom line, just like no exam can be cheated. As for whether the exam method and test question content are scientific, it is another question. You should know that any benefits and honors obtained by plagiarism, plagiarism, or fraud are improper and are also unfair to other peers. From this perspective, the fight against counterfeiting in the academic field should continue and strengthen, and should not be relaxed and stopped.
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