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今天Science《科学》发表的

是从我两个回复合并而来的。第一次长一些，第二次说可以很短。

“过去二十多年，一方面中国的科学出版数量和质量都增加了，不幸的是含造假的中国论文数量和比率也都增加了，而且创造了没有一位中国人会自豪的历史纪录。

我们有些人试图解决这一问题，但只在很少一些单位很小范围做到。

在全国范围内，虽然领导三令五申，努力解决这一问题，应该负责的机构和个人总是能够避免自己“湿鞋”：他们建立政策，但从不真正付诸行动。有些官员和权力大的科学家，故意放水著名的案件，让他们不受处罚。这些人最大的发明是“图片误用”，让作者把造假的图收回，用新的图替代，明明是造假，却借口是用错了图。

当然应该有绳之以法的机制，有真正责任心的官员，公平地调查科研不端，并有合适的处罚”。

“这是中国二十年前就应该有效解决的老问题。如果没有机构（中国的和国际杂志的）愿意建立有处罚的机制来解决它，问题只会越来越大”。

      Over the last two decades, while scientific publications from China have increased both in number and in quality,  the number of papers containing fabrications and the ratio of Chinese papers containing fabrications have also unfortunately increased, creating historical records that no one from China is proud of. Some of us have tried hard to solve the problem, but only successful at a small scale within a few institutions. But, while national leadership have tried again and again to rein in this problem, those who should have been responsible always manage to avoid getting their feet wet: they put up policies and never really follow up with actions. Some officials and some prominent scientists have intentionally helped well-known cases to go unpunished. The most creative invention by these was the term “Figure Misuse”, when they allowed authors to replace fabricated figures to use new figures to argue that they did not fabricate but only confused figures. 

      Of course there should be mechanisms with real teeth and officials with true sense of responsibility to properly and fairly investigate research misconducts, and take proper disciplinary actions. 

My quote can also be much shorter: “This is an old problem in China which should have been solved effectively twenty years ago. If no one (from Chinese agencies to international journals) want to correct old problems or to set up new mechanisms with teeth, it will only grow”.

最大的造假案是什么？

大家都可以装着不知道。

然后，后果是什么？不需要想象力。