One is a biologist, president of Capital Medical University, editor-in-chief of "Intellectuals", and the other is a CEO of BGI Group and a Ph.D. in the University of Copenhagen. When scientists and entrepreneurs confront each other, who do you stand in this public opinion storm?
On July 25, the president of Capital Medical University, Rao Yi , published the title "Chen Chunhua and Yin Ye : Whose doctor is more "water" in the competition after twenty years? 》 article questioned the doctoral degree of Yin Ye, CEO of BGI Group, which is very rich.
Including this "cannon", Rao Yi has fired three shots at Yin Ye in a row. The first two shots happened just past weekend. Rao Yi said that Yin Ye’s views are “pseudoscience,” “deception” and “blind fabrication.”
But unlike Yin Ye's usual style, this "famous mouth" in the biological world who likes to express opinions in the media, financial circles, and scientific research circles, has only briefly responded to four big words "Thank you for your advice" on his personal official account after being questioned by the academic community.
Is Rao Yi’s question reasonable? What is Yin Ye’s discipline level? Netizens chatted with the industry.
1 Rao Yi hit three shots in a row
Yin Ye is the second Chen Chunhua?
The first shot fired by Rao Yi at Yin Ye happened on July 23.
On the same day, Rao Yi published an article titled "Xin, Degree, and Elegance: Easy to say, and Just do..." on his personal public account "Rao Yi Science". He went straight to the point and directly named and criticized Yin Ye, CEO of BGI Group, saying that the content of biological science he made was "very unrigorous, with a lot of content that deliberately attracted public attention", "there are a lot of pseudoscience", and even said mercilessly that "Yin Ye's behavior is tantamount to lying on his own initiative. The content of his deception, nonsense and deception is beyond the scope of life science."
At the same time, Rao Yi also forwarded the video of Yin Ye talking with Yu Minhong on his WeChat Moments, with the caption saying that Yu Minhong and the people who watched the video were deceived by Yin Ye.
Public information shows that Rao Yi is a famous neurobiologist in my country. He is currently the president of Capital Medical University, editor-in-chief of "Intellectuals", and director of the Department of Science at Peking University. He has published dozens of papers in top international journals. He usually likes to expose "pseudoscience" in "Rao's Science". He not only publicly criticized Lianhua Qingwen, but also questioned three former professor Li Hongliang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Geng Meiyu, and Chinese pharmacology expert, suspected of academic misconduct.
When such a heavyweight expert came out to criticize Yin Ye, netizens were instantly exploded. Some applauded and said that the skin of Huada was finally revealed; some were outside the incident and used a melon-eating mentality to indicate that Yin Ye had encountered a tough problem this time; but some people suspected that Rao Yi was verbally speaking because he did not list Yin Ye's specific mistakes.
Perhaps because he noticed the relevant doubts, on July 24, Rao Yi fired a "second shot" at Yin Ye. In addition to saying that there is no need for scientists with psychological and mental normality to point out mistakes and lies, he also said that continuing to watch more and listen to Yin Ye is to reduce his IQ, and even advised BGI employees not to be apologized, otherwise the company will be finished sooner or later.
As soon as this article was released, the level of ridicule was full of mockery. In full view of everyone, Yin Ye came late with his response, but unlike the usual style of talking about the world, Yin Ye only responded to the four big words "Thank you for your advice" this time.
htmlOn July 25, Rao Yi posted a post "Chen Chunhua and Yin Ye: Whose doctor is more "water" in the competition for twenty years? 》Continues to criticize Yin Ye, questioning that the other party’s doctoral degree is moist, the reason is that Yin Ye also served as the CEO of BGI during his PhD study, and he did not have time to attend classes or do a doctorate."If it is a doctor who doesn't need to attend classes, then it can be controversial which one is more watery, either Yin Ye's doctor or Chen Chunhua's doctor." Rao Yi said.
Previously, the well-known scholar Chen Chunhua was peeled off by netizens for taking advantage of the popularity of Huawei and her doctoral degree came from a pheasant university with no school building and no teaching staff, the European University of Ireland. Then her image collapsed.
2 Is Yin an internet celebrity or a scientific expert?
Netizens and experts say this
If you often follow the financial circle, you may find that Yin Ye and Chen Chunhua really have some similarities. For example, both of them are entrepreneurs, but because they often appear in public, they are exposed to the spotlight, and they have some "Internet celebrity" temperament.
But unlike Chen Chunhua's way of becoming popular by taking advantage of Huawei, Yin Ye's route is to provide popular science content related to the field of life sciences to the public. Later, as the number of fans gradually increased, Yin Ye's topics were gradually extended from life sciences, genes, medicine to science and technology, education, and humanities knowledge. He also took the time to shoot the documentary "Life·Growth", and participated in the famous interview program " Roundtable " hosted by Dou Wentao , which attracted countless fans.
. The reason why many people are attracted to him is because Yin Ye’s lecture has a characteristic: he can explain obscure and difficult professional knowledge through extensive quotations and combined with some simple and easy-to-understand real cases.
However, because of this, netizens' comments on Yin Ye and his remarks are mixed.
Some people believe that Yin Ye’s ultimate goal of building his own science popularization internet celebrity is to promote and sell products to BGI Group.
Dianlan Finance noticed that Yin Ye currently has more than 2.68 million fans on Douyin . In addition to some of the short videos posted by his Douyin account, some of them are video clips of various interviews and documentaries, and some of them are recommending BGI's skin care and drinks. These products can be purchased through his TikTok showcase. For example, the "Mi Mi Probiotic" that Yin Ye recently promoted is known as specially developed for Chinese women. It can promote vaginal mucosa repair and restore vaginal bacterial balance. It costs 228 yuan per box. Another "Yidong Probiotic" is suspected to imply that consumers can lose weight after eating it.
For this reason, some netizens said, "Since BGI's probiotics have been released, (Yin Ye) has changed... The key is to make a fuss about advertising, saying that you can lose weight, he is not thin, and he said that it is good for the body, it's not true."
Some people also say that whenever Yin Ye mentioned complex things, he would give a common example. Although it is quite pleasing to the audience, it gives people the feeling of a business lecturer.
Some people also hold similar views to Rao Yi, believing that Yin Ye has many mistakes in what he said, and laymen listen to the excitement, and the experts will naturally see the problem.
To give an example, Yin Ye once said that brain thinking consumes energy, so matter will become energy. Finally, it is concluded that consciousness is produced by energy rather than by matter, so materialism does not exist.
not only overturned the Marxist view, he also publicly promoted that BGI could use gene technology to cure rabies . As a result, a month later, this originally hoped to become "the first cured rabies patient in China" was declared dead by the media.
In fact, this time, not only did netizens chat with each other, but many experts also expressed their opinions in media interviews, but some may be because Yin Ye’s colleagues do not want to offend him, so the expression is extremely tactful.
Like the experts interviewed by First Financial , one said, "The development of genetics has not yet truly matured. Many things are fooling or truth, and it remains to be tested by time." Another said, as an entrepreneur, Yin Ye can understand how to bring goods, but the style of painting changes, also said, "The public should understand that this type of talk show video is different from serious scientific knowledge."
, the two vague and dazed answers, as if they were saying that Yin Ye's views were not a problem, but it also seemed to imply that Yin Ye was a big fool that could not stand scrutiny. What exactly they are expressing can only be decided by the readers themselves.
3 BGI was put on the table:
It is expected to both decline in revenue and net profit in the first half of the year
Rao Yi criticized Yin Ye and also put the BGI Group behind Yin Ye on the table.
data shows that BGI Group's full name is BGI Group. As a subsidiary of BGI, BGI focuses on scientific research services and medical applications of gene sequencing. It was listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange GEM in 2017.In the second half of 2021, Yin Ye was promoted to CEO of BGI and vice chairman of BGI.
In the past two years, in addition to being influenced by Yin Ye, BGI has attracted much attention from the capital market because it has struck the epidemic dividend .
In April 2021, BGI released its most eye-catching annual report since its listing: in 2020, the company's revenue was 8.4 billion yuan, and increased by ,200% year-on-year; and achieved a net profit attributable to shareholders of 2.08 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 653%.
The new crown epidemic is an obvious accelerator - the company's overseas business revenue share has increased significantly to more than 60% for the first time with the dual-line layout of "detection kit + fire eye laboratory". Before 2020, BGI's overseas revenue accounted for only about 20%.
However, with the decline in the global unit price of new crown nucleic acid reagents and testing, the glory achieved by BGI in 2020 was fleeting, and the revenue and profit in 2021 both fell: operating income during the period was 6.766 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 19.42%; net profit attributable to shareholders was 1.462 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 30.08%.
Industry analysis shows that BGI once made a profit from new crown , but now it is also facing a performance impact due to the new crown. Putting aside the impact of the new crown factor, as the domestic fertility rate declines in the future, the NIPT (non-invasive prenatal genetic testing) industry led by BGI will also face severe tests. Even if Yin Ye is selling goods to the company, various pressures will still be reflected in BGI's financial report.
In the first half of this year, BGI expects revenue to decline by 9.50%-17.72% year-on-year, and net profit attributable to shareholders is expected to decline by 33.70%-46.59% year-on-year.
This article is from Deep Blue Finance
