Recently, the news that a sixth-grade primary school student in Kunming, Yunnan Province won a national prize for cancer gene research has exploded the major networks. But is winning the prize really that easy? The winner is still a primary school student. I think it is ok for primary school students to engage in scientific research, but the credibility of winning prizes by research alone is not high, let alone complicated cancer research.

It is understood that the prize-winning project of this primary school student is to study the mutant gene of colorectal cancer. Even if some doctoral students come, they are not fully sure that they can do it well. Before, there were middle school students in China who could publish papers on HowNet, but at least they were middle school students. Now, this high-end project to study cancer genes has been won by a primary school student. As some netizens said, the main scientific research team in China turned out to be primary school students.

Recently, the Chinese Academy of Sciences also issued a statement confirming that the parents of the primary school student who won the prize in the national youth science and technology competition are researchers of the institute. Then this matter becomes worth pondering. Is this pupil really a child prodigy, or are the parents of these two researchers willing to do whatever it takes for their children's future?

Now the situation that primary school students can win the grand prize of cancer gene project can be exposed on the table, which shows how authoritative the judges of this competition are. Moreover, the experimental report displayed in this grand prize shows that this primary school student didn't even know what genes were at first, so how did a primary school student who didn't even know genes complete such a high-end project of cancer project in just a few months?

Even if someone instructs the children to operate the experiment in detail, then a primary school student has no idea to complete the experiment, let alone a primary school student can really enter the cell room to operate such a complicated experiment? Does he have relevant operating qualifications? You should know that the cell line of this experimental object has certain oncogenes. Once improperly operated, it is easy to get infected with viruses. It is illegal for children to enter the cell. What's more, if the pupil really operates by himself, will his parents be at ease?

I think that although our country advocates innovation, we can't engage in academic fraud for children. Although there are countless cases of parents arranging primary school competitions all over the country, it is too inappropriate to do so on such a high-end topic. In the past, the act of grafting one's own research results on children was really quick success and instant benefit. Although it may bring a lot of honor to children in the short term, it is easy for children to form dependence in the long run, and their growth will ultimately depend on themselves. Only in this way can they avoid hitting a wall everywhere in the future society.