Two scientists from Tsinghua and Peking University got into an unprecedented argument. Zhang Shengjia, a scholar from Tsinghua University, published a paper on magnetic genetics in Science Bulletin, which was accused by Xie Can, a scholar from Peking University, as "preemptive strike", which set off a difficult puzzle in China academic circles. Two universities launched an investigation, and Tsinghua University subsequently fired Zhang Shengjia.

165438+ 10. In October, Xie Can's paper was finally published in Nature Materials, and the scientific community and the public finally got all the specific academic information related to this storm. In this paper, the papers of two scientists are annotated in detail. Through these annotations, readers can get a glimpse of their own works, and also have a deeper understanding of the theory of "grabbing papers" and form their own views.

In addition to paying attention to the controversial event itself, we should also pay attention to its long-term impact: how can scientists standardize the way of cooperation and avoid such events in today's increasingly common scientific research cooperation? Of course, the controversy should not obscure the scientific research achievements of the two scientists: this paper is also a detailed introduction to a series of important discoveries in the field of "magnetic genetics".