Wednesday, July 15, 2020

China 🇨🇳 Syndrome

POST-POSTWAR JAPAN: China Provocations Hasten Japan’s Military Revival.


Senator Patrick said Australia must reset its relationship with China and adopt a much firmer footing.

Crossbench senator Rex Patrick urges government to 'radically reduce' Chinese diplomats in Australia


Rex Patrick on Twitter


Watch what the Chinese do

I don't easily believe Chinese statistics - especially regarding something as awful as COVID-19...


CHINA SYNDROME:  Red Flags Raised Over Chinese Research Published in Global Journals: Apparently fraudulent data in dozens of peer-reviewed articles spark fresh worries about ‘paper mills’ used by researchers under pressure to publish.

Internationally peer-reviewed journals published more than 100 scientific research papers from China-based authors that appear to have reused identical sets of images, raising questions about the proliferation of problematic science as institutions fast-track research during the coronavirus pandemic.

The cache of 121 papers, credited to researchers from hospitals and medical universities across roughly 50 cities in China, all shared at least one image with another—a sign that many were likely produced by the same company or “paper mill,” said Elisabeth Bik, a California-based microbiologist and image-analysis expert who identified the trove.

Though the reports were published by different authors over a four-year period, many included identical snapshots of cell colonies—sometimes rotated or cropped to appear unique—despite focusing on different research topics. Phrases in figure captions were also repeated verbatim across the collection of reports.