Over two yearsHan chun rainPapersThe event was finally settled. Reporter from 31st nightHebei university of technologyThe official website was informed that the school published a paper on the publication of the korean spring rain team withdrawals on its websiteInvestigationsAccording to the survey and processing results (hereinafter referred to as the survey and processing results), the academic council of the school set up an investigative team to carefully verify all the original experimental information involved in the paper, based on the principles of “law-based, disciplined, factual, objective and impartial”, and commissioned a repeat validation experiment from a third party's national priority laboratories, which concluded that the withdrawal papers no longer had a basis for re-publication and that no subjective falsifications had been detected from the korean spring rain team。
The survey and processing results also stated that, on 2 may 2016, han spring rain, as the author of the newsletter, published a paper entitled ngago-g dna-led genetic editing techniques in nature biotechnology. On 3 august 2017, the korean spring rain team voluntarily withdrew the paper. The school attached great importance to the incident and carried out a comprehensive verification along academic and administrative lines。
Since the publication of this paper, there have been no changes in the personal housing, job titles, salary entitlements, etc. In the course of the investigation, the korean spring rains initiated a request for the return of scientific research projects, performance awards, honours, social employment, etc., based on withdrawal papers. In accordance with the regulations, the korea spring rains team has been cancelled from its reputation, its scientific research project has been terminated and its funding recovered, and the korean spring rains team has been rewarded for its scientific research performance. Individual social work is being done in accordance with statutory procedures。
The survey and processing results concluded that during the survey, the korean spring rains and its team worked actively to express appreciation for the interest of their peers and the public at large, and apologized for the misleading presentation. Hebei university of technology supports and encourages a wide range of teacher-student exploration in a manner consistent with the teaching of “good work”ScienceUnknown, serving the lives of the community. Schools will use this as an opportunity to further promote science and to insist on “zero tolerance” for academic misconduct。
It's the beginning and end of han chun rain's essay
Time will eventually give the answer。
After more than two years, the dust of the korean spring rains dissertation event fell. On the evening of 31 december, hebei university of technology published on its official website the results of the school publication of the research and processing of the korean spring rain team's dissertation papers. As a result, the academic council of the university established an investigative team to carefully verify all the original laboratory information involved in the paper, based on the principles of “law-based, disciplined, factual, objective and impartial”, and commissioned a repeat validation experiment from a third-party national priority laboratory, which concluded that the withdrawal papers no longer had a basis for re-publication and that no subjective forgery had been detected by the korean spring rain team。
From being unknown to being famous for one of the papers, to insisting in the face of the ensuing challenges that “someone copied” “himself”, to the subsequent withdrawal, to today's statement, this dramatic event ended。
It's famous
Time to go back to may 2, 2016. Forty-three-year-old han spring rains went red overnight。
On the same day, nature biotechnology launched an online new genetic editing technique, ngago-g dna. According to the paper, the technology was efficient vis-à-vis the “genic shear” crispr, capable of retrofitting specific genes, such as cutting, inserting, etc., and was found by some media as a “noor prize”。
The paper became a watershed in the academic career of its newsletter author, han spring rain. Prior to this, han chun rain, a native-born han shui family, attended hebei teacher training university and completed his master's studies at the chinese academy of agricultural sciences, returned to hebei medical university in shi jia quan after he completed his ph. D. In 2003. In 2006, the spring rain shifted to hebei university of technology. During his 10 years of teaching at hebei university of technology, he has published only two papers in chinese as a correspondent。
Until may 2nd. The presentation of this paper in the top international journal brought honour and money to the korean spring rains. He has a number of titles: vice-president of the co-operation of hebei province and the most american teacher in hebei province, he is also a candidate for the national “young science, technology and innovation masters” (lost in january 2017) and “the yangtze scholar award (lost in december 2016)”。
In addition, the research centre for genetic editing technology of hebei university of technology, estimated at 224 million yuan, was approved by the hebei provincial development commission and tenders were issued for the purchase of imported equipment, with a budget of 1. 58 million yuan。
At the same time, the korean spring rain was the subject of media chase. Without a background abroad to study abroad, the first-class results have been achieved, with scientific findings beyond the top of the laboratory under the crude conditions of the small-shop style。
“if the technology before is a market for vegetables, we find another market for vegetables, which enriches people's choices, and whether or not this market is to be tested by scientists around the world, i will certainly explore it further.” according to media reports, at one point, the korean spring rain team was “quietly cautious” about the claim that the new technology would replace the old technology and become the most practical。
"i never do adventures, i'm scared. I may have started to study the subject by accident, but this achievement is inevitable, and i've always been "awesome of things, good intentions." he also described himself to the media。
At that time, he didn't know if he was going to make a big bang。
Four questions
Soon it was discovered that the new market for vegetables was not as good as it thought. In less than a month, han spring rain and his ngago-g dna received a huge incendiary inversion。
On 20 may 2016, yanin, a distinguished professor of structural biology at the university of qinghua, first raised the issue of the repertoire of the results of the papers on twitter. Soon, the topic of “the korean spring rain paper cannot be repeated” began to grow on social networking platforms such as the know-your-know-it-all bar, and, together with public questioning by foreign scholars, the name “the south spring rain” appeared again on major media platforms. Some chinese scholars have also begun to speak out, pointing out that the results of the korean spring rains paper cannot be repeated. But there are isolated scholars who say that the korean spring rain paper works。
On 7 june of the same year, a scientific conference on the theme “research and application of genetic editing techniques” was held at the chaoshan hotel in beijing, at which han spring rain presented a central topic review report as a guest。
For the first time at this important meeting of the scientific community, the scientific reports of the korean spring rains were questioned in front of their peers. The korean spring rain did not complete the full agenda of the two-day meeting. According to the participants, his mentor, john burt, advised han to stay and communicate further with his colleagues, but han still chose to leave。
Question continues to ferment。
On 29 july 2016, the australian national university researcher gétan bourgois, who had previously announced that he could repeat the results of the korean spring rain experiment, stated that, despite several attempts by him and his colleagues over the past month, it had been found that ngago-g dna could not be genetically edited. He called on the journal nature-biotech to make raw data available for the korean spring rains. In addition, several scientists, including those from the united states and spain, have stated publicly that it is not possible to repeat the results of the genome editing of the ngago-g dna system in the spring rain。
Real name challenge
A few months later, on 8 october, he received an exclusive interview with the daily science and technology at the han chun rain laboratory of hebei university of technology。
In that interview, he clearly told reporters that he had repeated the experiment, “the experiment was repeated before the paper was published, and it was repeated after the paper was published.” he stated that there were indeed laboratories that did, “i will not say their names, but you will know them later”, because “i fear that they will be harassed by the media” and “i can't let them take the fall”。
Han chun-rain added that if scientists who had failed to repeat the experiment were willing to name it, they would give the names of those who had succeeded in the experiment。
Questioning the hotning of the night when the report was published in the daily journal of science and technology — 13 researchers in the country made public by their real names the results of their “repeated” korean spring rain experiment that could not be successful and called on the relevant institutions to initiate academic investigations. A letter addressed to the rector of hebei university of science and technology was made publicly available by yi yi and vice-president of the beijing institute of life sciences, shu feng, who recommended that hebei university of technology initiate an investigation in accordance with international practice。
Subsequently, a reporter from the daily science and technology newspaper returned to hebei university of technology and asked him to identify the person who had repeated the experiment, as he had previously stated, after having been told that he could not repeat it. The newspaper's journalists have been caught riding an old bicycle at the entrance of the school, with a slightly harsh spring rain. He believed that there was no repetition and that cell contamination was most likely. He was doing a double experiment, "working until morning." he still refuses to reveal the person who repeated the experiment。
In response to the request that scientists advise him to repeat the experiment and the data publicly, he indicated that he was willing to communicate with the scientists who came to communicate. However, peer scholars with whom they have interacted have made the opposite statement. "we sent students to his labs before." a researcher said to the technology daily。
On the same day, journalists found the office of sun tsuruo, president of hebei university of technology. He refused to answer any questions。
A few days later, hebei university of technology responded in writing to a question about the results of the korean spring rains experiment: institutions have been using the korean spring rains team technology for genetic editing, and specific information will be made available to society in due course。
At this point, while there are voices that “repeated does not mean no forgery” and “sent him a little more time”, “the business has largely concluded that this is a forgery.” one of the 13 real scholars told the daily reporter for science and technology。
“i would indeed be desperate for the academic environment in the country if such a terrible event were to cease”
Withdrawal of papers
The calendar turned to 3 august 2017. There have been new developments in the korea spring rains thesis. In the early morning hours of the same day, the journal nature? Biotechnology posted a retraction statement from the korean spring rain team on its website。
The statement stated: “despite the efforts of many laboratories, there have been no independent reports of these results. We are therefore withdrawing our initial report to preserve the integrity of the scientific record. However, we will continue to investigate the reasons for the lack of repetitivity in the study in order to provide an optimal experimental programme.”
Subsequently, hebei university of technology responded in the official network that “the school decided to initiate an academic review of the results of the study and related procedures”. At the same time, the school issued a statement by the han spring rain team: “agrees to select a third-party laboratory according to school arrangements, to conduct an experiment with the support of peer experts to validate the dna genetic editing of ngago-g and to publish the results of the experiment in response to social concerns.”
Following the withdrawal of the paper, the hebei university of science and technology carried out a full verification from academic and administrative lines in accordance with international practice. On 31 august, the school published the results of a study on the situation with regard to the korean spring rain team's dissertation papers, which it considered no longer had a basis for re-issuing, and did not detect subjective forgery by the korean spring rain team。
