"Are the academicians responsible? They are certainly responsible. As members of the appraisal committee, they were participants in this collective scientific research fraud and academic misconduct.
But is it useful to blame only the academicians? I think it's probably not of much use. A few days ago, I saw a lot of emotional abuse on some forums that netizens could understand. But there is a phenomenon that makes me feel strange: many netizens are defending Chen Jin, but almost all of them are scolding the members of the expert group, especially the academicians, thinking that they have taken advantage of Han. Core money is a representative of academic corruption.
I personally feel that Hanxin’s fraud is a pity and a black sheep; but for these academicians, they are also victims of reputational damage in this incident, and they are actually very unjustly scolded.
I have been working in the integrated circuit industry for a long time, and I have received expert groups when applying for projects. At the same time, as an expert in the industry, I have been in expert groups and reviewed other people's projects.
First of all, I can tell you that being an expert on the expert team is not a lucrative job. For half a day of small project review and one day of major project review, the expert fee I received was lower than my salary for the same length of work.
Sometimes coupled with the time spent traveling and traveling, this reward becomes even more of a labor expense.
Secondly, cracking down on counterfeiting is not the functional responsibility of experts. Just like the editors of academic journals cannot be held responsible for the authors' fraud, the academicians of the expert group cannot be held responsible for Hanxin's fraud.
All the experts can do is to check the standardization of the reporting documents, the rationality of the design principles, the completeness of the design process, and to recognize the rationality of both the reported materials and the reported results. Anti-counterfeiting is a function that the current project expert team simply cannot possess.
Thirdly, compared to the review by editors of academic journal articles, the members of the expert panel have a bigger obstacle: trade secrets.
If an academic article is true, then another person or group can obtain the same results based on the same experimental description; the key to the experiment/article is to announce how to do it. For projects, experts in the same industry are also potential competitors. You absolutely cannot tell experts how to do this.
Experts must disclose less information and rely on past experience to determine that the project was indeed completed as the reporter proposed. They are likely to make mistakes, let alone deal with carefully organized fraud.
In fact, the integrated circuit industry itself also has a strong need to prevent errors. Sometimes there are situations like this in academic articles, where the academic results are expected. In other words, a certain experimental result may not support a certain conclusion, but the academic did not intentionally falsify it, but he came to the wrong conclusion.
Such errors in academics are mostly discovered and resolved by peers. After all, the losses from academic errors are relatively small. A real high-tech project, a chip design with millions of gates, has endless pitfalls, but it is unable to withstand the economic losses caused by such mistakes. Therefore, integrated circuits have their own set of working principles to solve this unintentional error, which is called "functional verification".
Functional verification, like design, has now become a part of the integrated circuit itself, and engineers spend more time and money on functional verification than on the logic design itself.
Therefore, in order for our expert team to have the ability to verify Hanxin, this requires a mature team of several people, several months of time, and millions of dollars of money to achieve.
Only Zhou Xin's Xinxin Technology or Motorola's professional team can do this by spending time and energy.
Moreover, even so, it can only verify that Hanxin's functions are indeed correct, but it cannot detect Hanxin's current situation: the chip handed over to them can work normally, but it is a stolen counterfeit.
If our expert group is assigned such a function and the entire social structure is structured around anti-counterfeiting rather than establishing credit, then the social cost will be too high. "
Before Chen Jin's recording was exposed, this was an explanation that a certain expert from China came up with for the experts of the appraisal committee during an interview.
There are experts in other fields who even go so far as to pull themselves down in order to defend the academicians:
"Before, I took a group of experts to a certain city's science and technology committee to evaluate a project. They told me at the beginning that you must evaluate this project. We did so all morning and finally got 500 yuan.
To put it bluntly, experts participating in project reviews are actually going through the motions according to the procedures, ideas and even results prescribed by others in advance. We do not have much authority when doing project reviews.
Does Chen Jin have the ability to make DSP chips? If Hanxin had not been exposed, he would have applied for a large amount of funding from the Ministry of Science and Technology and the National Chiao Tung University, and then found the best scholars and the most experienced engineers to cooperate, and it would have been possible in the end.
In fact, there are many similar cases around me. I applied for key disciplines. After the application was approved, I invited good scholars to come over. After a few years, the results were very good. When I was re-evaluated, I relied on my own strength instead of packaging.
In William Nicholas's book on academic fraud, he pointed out that every major fraud that is revealed represents about 100,000 large and small frauds hidden in the swamp of scientific literature.
So so far, there is no evidence that scientists are generally moral people. If there were certain stages in history when scientists showed a relatively high average moral standard, it was not determined by factors inherent in scientific research activities, but simply Because at that time, scientific activities were relatively unprofitable.
Therefore, in today's era of professional scientific research, it may not be reasonable to require scientists to serve as moral role models outside of scientific research.
I believe that the academicians only went through the evaluation process of Hanxin No. 1 according to the established level of Jiaotong University, and were not very aware of Hanxin's problems. "
There are many experts who came out to support the academicians. Of course, there are also scholars in the humanities and social sciences who believe that the academicians need to be responsible for this matter.
As a result, after Chen Jin's recording was played, everyone remained in an embarrassing silence. I had already thought about how to wash it for you, but I didn't expect you to actually do this?
The scholars who wanted to help them explain did not dare to speak anymore, for fear that Chen Jin would have some recordings in his hand and be slapped in the face after playing them.
It's not surprising that Chen Jin would do something like this. He could transform other people's chips into self-developed chips and launch them. He had been doing this for many years. In the end, no one in the entire chain bore legal responsibility, not even himself.
Without Zhou Xin, this matter would have been reported by a user with the online name "jubaoxin168" on SJTU's BBS.
After the incident was exposed, the discussion has been very high, especially on the Internet. Netizens have various speculations about the outcome of Hanxin. Zhou Xin later met people in the integrated circuit industry who graduated from Jiaotong University and were talking about Hanxin. At that time, I felt that Chen Jin must have some leverage that made Jiaotong University and relevant departments let him go.
Because in the original time and space, Chen Jin defrauded more than a little bit of scientific research funds.
After Zhou Xin saw the domestic news reports, he finally knew what Chen Jin had in his hands. It turned out that there was a recording.
For him, it makes little difference whether there is a recording or not, but his actions are more legitimate after the recording.
In order to cooperate with Mphone's entry into the Chinese market, Zhou Xin himself also opened an account on China's Weibo. During the Hanxin incident, his Weibo also became one of the battlefields for public opinion about the Hanxin incident.
Netizens with various opinions are discussing it below. Because being able to afford a Mphone means having certain financial strength, which means having certain social experience, everyone will naturally have different views on this matter. , and be able to find reasons for your opinions.
There are a few accounts on Zhou Xin Weibo that defend the experts of the appraisal committee. They like to quote all kinds of scriptures and say that they just made mistakes that everyone makes. After Chen Jin's recording was aired, other netizens who had been refuted began to dig up graves and smack them in the face with their previous remarks.
No one could have imagined that twenty years later, in the Internet self-media management regulations, even the act of digging graves would be stopped. It is probably the bound book that hurt some people's hearts.
While the online forums were carnivaling, the media was silent, and Chen Jin was the only participant in the Hanxin incident to speak out, Zhou Xin took a special plane back to Yanjing from the Lion City.
"Zhou Xin, the news I got is that participants of Hanxin will be punished according to the degree of participation. Two experts like Yan Xiaolang and Xu Juyan who were deeply involved will be held criminally responsible.
According to inquiries from all parties, Zou Shichang did not participate in this matter. He just signed a letter as an expert, but he also has to bear corresponding responsibilities. At least he only retains his academic identity and all other political identities are marginalized. Early retirement. "Cao Yongluo and Wu Shiqiang came to pick up Zhou Xin together. On the special car to the hotel, Cao Yongluo told Zhou Xin the news he knew.
Zhou Xin said: "These are within my expectations. What I'm curious about is whether the relevant leaders of Jiaotong University are responsible? When Chen Jin was interviewed, he said that he only received 20 million of the 50 million scientific research funds. When it comes to this, The person responsible for the incident should be more responsible, right?
Including Jiaotong University’s announcement to shield core members of Hanxin’s R&D team.
From my personal point of view, I don’t care much about which specific person is punished. I don’t know them, and their punishment has nothing to do with me. What I care about is the mechanism. Can we have a mechanism to try to avoid similar things from happening in the future? . "
Cao Yongluo said: “I guess, I have only heard that the Association for Science and Technology’s Ethics and Rights of Science and Technology Workers Special Committee will be split in the future, and the Ethics Committee will be separated to assume greater powers and responsibilities.
The new ethics committee will be specifically responsible for managing academic ethics, and I don’t know the specific implementation details. "
"The industry is very concerned about Hanxin, because it is very negative for the entire industry. Although it happened to individual people, it is essentially related to the scientific research and review system.
There have been a lot of internal meetings on this matter during this period. In addition, you have increased your investment in the Lion City. Hanxin was originally the focus, and now it is an urgent problem to be solved.
Including this time, the presidents of 985 and 211 universities came to Beijing to participate in the seminar, all to discuss how to avoid academic fraud from the institutional level.
My family also put pressure on me and asked me to advise you. "Cao Yongluo continued.
Wu Shiqiang added: "As a representative of emerging investments, I also attended the expert discussion held by the Association for Science and Technology. We have a certain status in China's industry, academia and research, so I also attended it.
Some experts believe that the focus of government investment should be on basic scientific research rather than applied technology.
Some experts also believe that focusing on basic scientific research is correct in developed countries, but it is not so suitable for China's development stage. Because what China lacks is support for the industrialization of scientific research results.
If research work is not combined with industrial applications, it will be difficult to judge the authenticity of the results and achieve the goal of promoting industrial development through independent innovation. "
Wu Shiqiang said: "China attaches great importance to this matter and how to achieve results."
In fact, the subtext of Cao Yongluo and Wu Shiqiang was that he was almost done and asked him to stop. It was just because they couldn't explain it clearly because of their different statuses, so they could only tell Zhou Xin in this euphemistic way.
If Wu Shiqiang was not present and only Cao Yongluo was present, he could speak more straightforwardly.
Zhou Xin could naturally hear the subtext. The two of them may not really want him to stop, but because he was going back to Yanjing to meet a big shot this time, and they were afraid that he would not have a good conversation with the big shot because of his youth and arrogance.
Even if there is no good chat, Zhou Xin will be fine, but it will affect Zhou Xin's domestic investment and business operations, and thus affect them.
Both Wu Shiqiang and Cao Yongluo rely heavily on Zhou Xin's domestic career territory.
Zhou Xin is not too worried. This is an aboveboard move. What is there to be afraid of when the righteousness is at hand? When the Hanxin incident is over, there will never be such a good opportunity to interfere with the operating mechanism of the academic world.
Under this premise, Zhou Xin went to see the big shot on the second day after arriving in Yanjing.
"Little comrade, we meet again. This time I specially asked you to come back."
"Hello, sir, I didn't come back here specially. I have always wanted to increase investment in the Lion City and use the Lion City as a base to radiate my influence to the entire Southeast Asia. I have never found the opportunity to go to the Lion City and have a detailed chat with them before. .
This time it is equivalent to going to Lion City first and then returning to Yanjing. After talking in Yanjing, I can also go to Zhangjiang to see it. It is a rare opportunity to come back. I also really want to see the changes in Zhang Jiang. "
The old man sighed: "Hanxin sounded a wake-up call for me. The people below kept telling me that there was something wrong with Chen Jin alone, and the experts were doing bad things with good intentions.
The result was what it is now. Because SJTU is my alma mater, I have always paid close attention to this matter. "
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