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Publicado en Nature: Un tercio de los investigadores chinos encuestados admiten haber plagiado, falsificado o fabricado datos en artículos científicos

Publicado por emulenews en 13 Enero 2010




La revista Nature ha pasado un cuestionario anónimo a 6.000 investigadores de las 6 instituciones científicas chinas más importantes. Un tercio de los investigadores admite haber plagiado, falsificado o inventado datos en artículos científicos. ¿Por qué Nature ha realizado este estudio? Porque los editores de la revista británica Acta Crystallographica Section E, que publica estructuras cristalográficas, ha retractado 70 estructuras cristalinas presuntamente inventadas por investigadores de la Universidad de Jinggangshan, en la Provincia de Jiangxi, China. Los editores han asegurado que esperan más retracciones. Investigadores chinos son responsables de casi la mitad de las casi 200.000 estructuras cristalinas publicadas por esta revista en los últimos 5 años. Según los editores de la revista la inmensa mayoría de dichas estructuras está correctamente calculada. ¿Por qué los científicos chinos actúan así? Porque gran parte del presupuesto de las universidades chinas depende del número de artículos publicados en revistas con índice de impacto. Importa el número, no la calidad de dichos artículos. Se estima que una financiación de más de 150 millones de dólares ha sido obtenida en 2009 mediante publicaciones científicas “dudosas.” El gobierno chino ya abrió una investigación entre las instituciones científicas de Pekín que encontró un tercio de investigadores que admitieron prácticas ilegítimas (los cuestionados fueron 2000 investigadores de 10 universidades). Nos lo cuenta Jane Qiu, “Publish or perish in China. The pressure to rack up publications in high-impact journals could encourage misconduct, some say,” News, Nature 463: 142-143, 13 January 2010. Publica o perece. No te importe qué ni dónde, siempre y cuando tenga índice de impacto. ¿No os recuerda algo? Le pregunto a los investigadores españoles.
PS (14 ene. 2010): marcee en Menéame comenta que “La entradilla es ligeramente errónea, el cuestionario no es de Nature, que sólo recoge la noticia. El cuestionario es del Ministerio chino de Ciencia: “China’s science ministry commissioned a survey of researchers, the results of which remain under wraps. However, several sources revealed to Nature that roughly one-third of more than 6,000 surveyed across six top institutions admitted to plagiarism, falsification or fabrication“.” Gracias por reportar mi error, marcee.

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pollo, acabas de descubir la pólvora...

Varios años trabajando en un centro de i+d en España... he visto de todo, subvenciones a empresas que engordan facturas para quedarse con el cash, subvenciones para investigar algo que ya existe, comprar productos americanos e incluso japoneses para "copiarlos", a no, lo llamaban analizar la competencia... (en este último el CSIC estaba involucrado)...
Falsificar informes de resultados? eso pasa en las mejores familias,hay que justificar..
Escribir artículos por escribir? No sabes que en España para participar en proyectos importantes debes tener publicaciones? Por ejemplo he visto becarios escribiendo publicaciones para doctorados... por supuesto de contenido dudoso, para justificar su Currículum y nada más.

Despertad de la mentira en la que vivís... véis un grano de arena en china y no sóis capaces de ver la viga doble T de acero que tenéis delante.

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Publicado en Nature: Un tercio de los investigadores chinos encuestados admiten haber plagiado, falsificado o fabricado datos en artículos científicos

Henry Ford Raising Wage May Give China Tip on Worker Prosperity

Jan. 19 (Bloomberg) -- “Little” Xie says he wants to own one of the autos he helps build at Ford Motor Co.’s assembly plant in the Yangtze River city of Chongqing. With his mortgage payment taking about 60 percent of his 2,000 yuan monthly pay, that won’t happen soon.

“It isn’t even worth talking about company incentives to help buy a car, since I can’t afford one in the first place,” said Xie, 28, a six-year Ford employee, as he approached the factory gates for his night shift. Xie, whose nickname comes from his youthful age, asked that his full name not be used.

Higher wages for people like Xie would help resolve China’s biggest economic challenge: shifting away from growth fueled by exports and investment and moving toward an economy driven more by domestic consumers. China’s communist leaders might learn a lesson about how to create a more prosperous working class from American industrialist Henry Ford.

The founder of the auto manufacturer that bears his name generated headlines around the world in January 1914 by doubling the average autoworker’s pay to $5 a day. The move made Ford’s Model T more affordable, created a more stable workforce and helped stoke the growth of the U.S. middle class, according to Bob Kreipke, the historian for the Dearborn, Michigan-based company.

“This allowed people to increase their buying power and, at the same time, they produced a better product,” Kreipke said.

Consumer Culture

Low wages in the world’s third-largest economy are slowing the rise of a consumer culture that Premier Wen Jiabao and President Hu Jintao have said China needs to maintain expansion at the 8 percent a year that will generate jobs for its 1.3 billion people. The current growth pattern is “unsustainable,” Wen said Dec. 27.

That hasn’t stopped China’s auto industry from booming, with sales last year of 13.6 million vehicles, eclipsing the U.S. as the world’s top market for the first time, according to figures from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers in Beijing. The surge in purchases was spurred partly by government subsidies to help farmers buy autos.

Encouraging higher pay might help sustain the boom and boost consumption, which currently accounts for about 35 percent of China’s gross domestic product, compared with 70 percent in the U.S. It would also help ease income gaps between the rich and poor, which are higher than those in South Korea and Taiwan at similar stages of development and have led to riots and other labor unrest.

Buying Power

Ford’s $5 daily pay allowed an employee to buy a Model T that cost $440 with the equivalent of about four months’ wages. Chinese factory workers averaged 24,192 yuan ($3,544) a year in 2008, according to figures from the National Bureau of Statistics in Beijing, so it would take more than three years worth of wages for them to afford the cheapest car advertised on the company’s Chinese-language Web site: a four-door hatchback with a 1.3 liter engine listed for 78,900 yuan.

While the auto company declined to comment on worker pay, Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, Ford’s chief economist, said Ford projects growth 10 years into the future for the countries where it operates, and it sees China’s economy in a period of expansion characterized by rapid rises in employee compensation similar to South Korea’s economy starting in the 1960s.

“We are at a situation where wages are moving up and doubling in a very short period of time,” Hughes-Cromwick said in a telephone interview from Dearborn. “We do expect takeoff to generate pretty substantial wage gains.”

Boost Pay

One way China’s government might help boost pay would be to raise the value of the yuan, said Nicholas Lardy, who studies the Chinese economy as a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington.

U.S. and European officials have said China keeps the yuan artificially low to boost sales in foreign markets. An undervalued currency encourages manufactured exports at the expense of developing the more labor-intensive service sector, depressing job growth and keeping wages low, Lardy said.

“Appreciation would lead to more rapid growth in the demand for labor and thus to more employment growth and more wage growth,” he said.

China should also spend more on education for peasants and migrants to raise their skill levels and employment prospects, said Xiao Geng, director of the Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy in Beijing.

Rural Migrants

Henry Ford employed some of the millions of eastern European immigrants who poured into the U.S. a century ago, as well as migrants from the South and Midwest lured by high wages. China’s leaders must deal with hundreds of millions of rural laborers coming to cities, who put downward pressure on salaries.

“Unskilled workers are condemned for generations to low wages,” Xiao said.

Even a skilled worker like Gong -- who also asked that his full name not be used -- said he makes only 6 yuan ($0.88) an hour as a welder at Ford’s Chongqing plant, 9 yuan an hour for overtime.

“I have a dream of someday buying a car,” said Gong, 29, as he walked home in the rain after a 10-hour shift. “I guess it will take six years of saving.”

For Related News and Information: China economic-data watch indexes: ESNP CH News about China: NI CHINA Stories on Ford in China: F TCNI CHINA News about the auto industry: NI AUT Average wages in China: CHAWAVGE GP

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Momento para iniciar un boicot total y completo, a las grandes editoriales, a los estudios cinematográficos, a las compañías musicales y las productoras de televisión, que nadie acuda al cine, ni compre DVDs, ni libros, ni CDs ni nada. Entonces si que se cagan, tanto esta gentuza, como la casta que se beneficia y les ha puesto este atropello en bandeja.