On July 23, 2020, Elisabeth Bik, a global anti-counterfeiting policeman, said on PubPeer, an overseas academic anti-counterfeiting website, that 25 academic papers published by Zhan, executive vice president of Peking University, director of Peking University Medical School and academician of China Academy of Engineering in the past 20 years were suspected? Fake? . It caused a hot discussion among netizens for a time. Some people think that Zhan Qimin doesn't know, but that there is something wrong with his team. However, some people say that Zhan's poor leadership is still responsible. Either way, it seems that it can't refute Zhan's academic paper. Fake? .
The paper that Elizabeth Bick called Jan? Fake? It mainly includes these aspects: first, repeated experimental images; Second, it violates animal experimental ethics and common sense errors in experimental results; Third, invalid or missing primers. Questioning Zhan in Bike? Fake? Subsequently, on July 24, 2020, Zhan publicly responded in his official WeChat account that there were some annotation errors in these 25 academic papers, but this had nothing to do with academic misconduct and implementation results. In addition, Zhan Qimin's team also gave corresponding responses to some papers, such as admitting that the same experimental diagram was wrongly placed in different experiments, and Bik also replied that some of them were misjudged. However, some remaining problems have not been answered by Zhan's team, such as the large tumor in experimental mice, which is inconsistent with the description in the report.
Even if some of them are misjudgments, there are still many real facts. Therefore, I don't think it's a rumor that Zhan, the executive vice president of Peking University, was exposed for improper writing. And even if these problems in the paper do not affect the experimental conclusion, we should reply to the journal in time and correct the wrong information in time. After all, academic papers pay attention to rigor and science, and science is no problem, so why not strive for perfection and make this paper look more perfect?