First, academic fraud has a wide range and involves a large number of people, which is worth pondering.
Academic fraud incidents have been frequently discovered in recent years. Semenza, a Nobel Prize winner, was accused of paper fraud mainly focusing on a picture with multiple uses or being uploaded by ps. Objectively speaking, as a correspondent, it may be difficult for Semenza to strictly check every paper, but since the paper is signed, its responsibility cannot be avoided. On second thought, I'm afraid this kind of question will appear in the paper of a Nobel Prize winner. Are other scholars who have not received such attention more serious about fraud?
Second, whether the Nobel Prize evaluation is not strict enough is worth discussing.
The Nobel Prize can be said to be the highest prize in the world. However, the Nobel Prize winner was exposed to academic fraud, which had to make people think deeply. Are the evaluation mechanism and award criteria of the Nobel Prize fair enough? What scares you when you think about it carefully is, was it a mistake this time, or was it intentional? Or are the merits and demerits offset? Or is it really too deep?
Thirdly, whether Semenza's other research theories are trustworthy and worthy of further investigation.
Although the fake papers found at present do not involve HIF- 1 related papers that established Semenza's position, we don't know whether it will be overturned again in the follow-up investigation, and if its most important theory also involves fraud, not only Semenza's academic position, but even the whole academic field will be affected.
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